Taken by Force by My Reborn White Moonlight

[Blurb is here]

After she transmigrates, Yun Qing is locked up in a temple, where she meets Huai Xu, a man practicing there.

He teaches her to play the zither, practice calligraphy, and recite scriptures, becoming the only moonlight shining on her in the dark mountain temple.

Later, he vanishes without warning, leaving no word behind.

Just as she is about to escape the temple and look for him, a distinguished visitor arrives.

The man wears a python robe. His eyes are dark and gleaming, and his smile is gentle. He has the same face as Huai Xu.

It turns out that he's the crown prince of the Eastern Palace.

Her Huai Xu will never come back.

Although Yun Qing is disappointed, she soon comes to terms with it. She puts their tender whispers behind her, packs her belongings, and joins a caravan heading south to find a way home.

Unexpectedly, when she looks up, she meets the man's sinister gaze.

The crown prince, who ignores her by day, approaches her bed curtains. His towering figure slowly swallows her whole.

His breath, damp and hot, brushes her ear:

“I won't take you without giving you anything. I'll grant you a lifetime of wealth and splendor.”

“I don't want it.”

“After we marry, you'd better give me a son and a daughter.”

The crown prince talks to himself as if he's deaf, visiting her bedchamber night after night and taking her as his mood shifts.

Yun Qing thinks he's seriously ill. She pretends to play along while looking for a chance to escape.

**

He Lan Jie is heaven's favored child, born to inherit the throne and rule the world.

If the emperor hadn't believed the rumors, he would never have set foot in that dilapidated temple, met a woman so uneducated and lacking in propriety, much less fallen in love with her.

But whenever he closes his eyes, all he sees is her smiling face and lovely features, the enchanting sight of her in his arms.

This disgusts and scorns the man who has been reborn.

Yet he longs for her desperately.

No matter. She's just a woman. He can have her if he wants her.

He is fickle and unfeeling, seeing love as a stumbling block, and he has never had genuine feelings for her. But as he gazes into her affectionate eyes and listens to her profess her love, he grows ever more addicted. If she can learn the manners and bearing of a noblewoman, perhaps he can even make her crown princess.

Until he hears of her death. He snaps his wolf-hair brush, unable to conceal his panic in his anger.

So she is even more heartless than he is.

She'd rather die than have him.

[Bonus Scene]

In the fourth year after she transmigrates, Yun Qing earns a living playing the zither in a teahouse, waiting for a chance to get home.

By chance, the emperor's carriage passes along the main street, surrounded by a sea of people.

Yun Qing squeezes into the farthest corner. The chilling gaze suddenly turns toward her, lingering for a long time.

When an official asks, the emperor merely says, “I don't know her.”

Then he looks away, as if he has forgotten the past.

Yun Qing goes home with her heart pounding. That night, a strange noise comes from beside her bed. Then her ankle is caught, and a cold chain fastens around it.

At some point, someone has appeared on her bed.

“Still trying to run?”

[Forced possession / love and hate entangled / melodramatic twists / happy ending / both leads are sexually inexperienced]

[Clear-headed, determined transmigrated woman, intent on going home × sinister, obsessive, ruthless reborn man]

Theme: Persevere and never forget your original purpose