The Grand Secretary's Wife's Daily Escape

[Coming soon: He Insists on Getting Back Together, Entertainment Industry. My next novel is opening for favorites, so please add it (*^-^*). Blurb at the end]

- This novel's blurb -

Princess raised in the countryside x chancellor who survived the fall of his dynasty

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The princess, who had been raised in the countryside, was ambushed in a deep forest as soon as she returned to the capital.

But fate had not abandoned her. She returned to life in the body of the legitimate daughter of the Jiang family and married Shang Lin, the chancellor of the current dynasty.

A minister's daughter and a high-ranking court official should have been a perfect match. But then the emperor suddenly fell gravely ill, and rumors in the capital pointed to the chancellor as the one who poisoned him in a bid to seize power.

Nian Xuechao climbed out of the mud and gave a cold laugh as she watched the carriage arrive to search for her body.

This man had bewitched her younger brother, poisoned her father, and taken her life. Now that she had a second chance, she would kill him!

But her new body was weak and frail. She was no match for him. Looking at the handsome face before her, Nian Xuechao came up with a wicked plan.

She would use her beauty to seduce him!

From that day on, she used every trick she could think of. By day, she washed her hands to prepare meals for him; at night, she spent every evening in bed with him.

Yet she discovered that her husband was gentle and virtuous, nothing like the terrifying man people in the capital described.

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Until one day, she wandered into a forbidden area and discovered that he was a member of the former imperial family.

She lured him into the deep forest, raised her knife, and plunged it into his heart.

The court officials received the secret letter she sent and brought an army to hunt him down.

But he had controlled the court for ten years and carefully cultivated countless soldiers for the Shang family. She couldn't stop him.

Since she didn't care for the gentle haven he had built for her and was set on escaping,

he would conquer this city and imprison her in bed, so that she would have no choice but to stay by his side day and night.

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That night, Nian Xuechao huddled in the corner of the bed, wrapped in a quilt. The door burst open, and her husband entered, covered in blood, his eyes fixed on her alone.

"Everyone who ever upset you is dead. Now there's only me left. If you want my life, take it."

He placed the Yuli Sword in her hand, closed his eyes, and waited for her to torture him.

But the woman before him did something entirely unexpected. She threw herself into his arms and said in a muffled voice, "Why would I kill you? I still hope that, from now on, we can stay together and grow old side by side."

Her life had been hard, her death absurd, and even her hatred had been directed at the wrong person. How ridiculous.

But meeting Shang Lin was one of the few blessings in her life.

The man in his arms froze at her words. He wiped the blood from his hands and, as he always did, gently brushed the tears from the corners of her eyes. Then he said softly, "All right. I'll do whatever you say, my lady."

- Coming-soon novel blurb -

[Rekindled romance | Entertainment industry | Angsty push and pull]

Scandal-plagued actress x actor from a family of filmmakers

Shi Qi's marriage to Lin Yizhou began as part of her plan to escape.

She had spent ten years in the entertainment industry and had been branded a terrible woman for all of them. Her reputation was in tatters.

It was all Lin Yizhou's fault.

He was her first love and the one who brought her into the industry.

During a scene filmed on the last day of production, their horse bolted and they fell from its back.

Lin Yizhou protected her, sustaining a fractured lumbar spine and falling into a coma.

Everyone thought she would stay by his bedside, weeping bitterly.

But later, the news reported that she had left without a word and vanished for over half a year.

When she finally reappeared, rumors linked her to Jiang Yuzhi, the second young master of the Jiang family. They were even said to have matching couple license plate numbers.

The new drama she had made with Lin Yizhou unexpectedly became a hit and was nominated for the Dika Awards.

The man who won Best Actor was still abroad recovering from his injuries, with no word from him.

Everyone thought she wouldn't dare show her face at the gala, but she returned to the public eye in towering heels.

Over the past ten years, she'd built a career in film, television, and variety shows, becoming so commercially successful that no one could rival her.

The entertainment company Jiang Yuzhi had set up for her made enormous profits.

Only three months remained on her contract. The clause he had tricked her into owing him all those years ago was about to take effect.

When the contract ended, she would have to marry him, retire from show business, and go home to be Mrs. Jiang.

Shi Qi didn't want to retire. She still wanted to compete for this year's Dika Award, and she still wanted to win the grand slam! Her acting career shouldn't end like this!

With nowhere left to turn, the travel variety show she'd arranged long ago to promote her drama suddenly hit a snag.

The program's call sheet was leaked in the early hours of the morning.

Her ex-boyfriend, the ex-boyfriend she had abandoned, Lin Yizhou, was on the list!

In an instant, trending topics with both their names took over the entire rankings.

A wicked idea suddenly came to her.

If she got married before her contract ended, what could Jiang Yuzhi do about it? At worst, she would pay the penalty for breaking the contract.

That night, she stood outside Lin Yizhou's bathroom and grabbed his arm, still wet with droplets, as she asked:

"Lin Yizhou, will you marry me? Your ex-girlfriend."

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Lin Yizhou thought she had to be insane to ask him that.

He bluntly rejected her tempting offer:

"Shi Qi, not everyone is as calculating as you are."

"You left ten years ago. You lost your chance to come back."

Yet, as if possessed, he sat at the bar and spent the entire night drafting a prenuptial agreement.

A strange sense of relief rose in his heart. It was a good thing he'd studied law before entering the film industry.

It was just a shame that his legal writing was rusty now, so he was working too slowly.

The next evening, Shi Qi woke to the sound of his voice.

"The marriage registry closes at five. You have half an hour."

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She had thought that being married on paper would leave them free and unburdened.

But after they married, she had to take on the duty of keeping watch over Lin Yizhou while he slept.

She refused to believe that such a cold, heartless man could have sleepwalking disorder, and the kind where he hurt himself in his sleep at that!

While filming the show, she sneaked into his room every night like a thief to "sleep by his side."

Later, she witnessed it for herself: Lin Yizhou really was crazy, a madman who would risk his life for her.

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Their fake marriage was exposed before it had even lasted three months.

At the same time, her career took a devastating hit, and she was disgraced.

The colleagues she had once trampled underfoot clapped and cheered. They wanted to drive her into the depths and make sure she never rose again.

The media hounded Lin Yizhou, and even his friends were convinced that, at such a moment, he would cruelly abandon her to avenge the hurt she had caused him.

"Zhou, you're something else. You laid out such a huge plan just to destroy her."

"We're with you, buddy. When you nearly died in that hospital bed, she didn't even come to see you. She deserves everything she's getting!"

Amid the uproar, Lin Yizhou posted this on Weibo:

"I married her. I never planned to divorce her."

The picture showed a moment from ten years ago:

She had been crying on set until her eyes were swollen and red. Wrapped in his cotton coat, she was half asleep. He held the engagement ring he had prepared early, resting it on his knee.

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Theme: The courage born of love is enough to withstand all the loneliness in the world.