Xi Zhuyue transmigrates and, in a daze, catches the attention of a lord. Everyone around her is delighted that she can serve him, but she refuses to become a plaything and runs away.
Raised under the red flag, she has a foolish innocence and does not understand how the struggle for power under feudal rule can drive people mad.
In the end, her spirit is broken and she can no longer escape. She becomes Xiao Yan's favored concubine and soon falls pregnant with his child.
On the day she gives birth, Xiao Yan is marrying his wife. The child she nearly dies bringing into the world does not even get to see its birth mother's face. The moment it opens its eyes, it becomes the new bride's legitimate eldest son.
To see her child, Xi Zhuyue drags her newly postpartum body to the bridal chamber and kneels outside.
The rain lashes down. Cold seeps into Xi Zhuyue's frail body, making her shiver. Rain and blood blur her vision. When she looks up, she can only make out a newlywed couple standing side by side in the hazy, yellow candlelight, a perfect match.
Xiao Yan finally allows the wet nurse to bring the child to her, but coldly warns her, “Remember your place.” Then he confines her to her rooms for reflection.
Xi Zhuyue clutches the wailing child to her chest and bows her head without a word.
Later, Xi Zhuyue disappears.
He searches from the highest heavens to the depths of the underworld, but finds no trace of her. Only when Xiao Yan holds the child's ten tiny fingers, each pierced and bleeding, does he realize that Xi Zhuyue's proud spirit was never broken. She only pretended to be docile long enough to give birth. Then, kneeling so pitifully in the rain that night, she begged him for one reason alone: to leave him.
The young lord spits blood and loses his mind completely.
Had an elderly minister not held the wailing child in its swaddling clothes and called him back from hell again and again, the lord would likely have followed Xi Zhuyue to her death.
Once he regains his senses, the lord devotes himself entirely to setting enemies against one another and expanding his territory. No one dares mention Xi Zhuyue again. It seems he has cast her from his mind.
Only those closest to him know that Xiao Yan has grown dark and cold, obsessively offering his own flesh and blood in a ritual array, begging her to return.
Ten years and 6,894 cuts later, he finally succeeds in calling her back.
But why, even though she has long since forgotten him, does she still remember that she does not love him?
Content warnings: 1. A feudal patriarch × a radiant beauty. The male lead is a feudal patriarch, so expect a messy, melodramatic plot.
2. The story begins when the male lead is 20. So don't ask why he's a virgin despite his feudal mindset: he is betrothed, but has not married yet. Without the female lead, he would have married his proper wife, waited for her to give birth to a legitimate eldest son, then taken concubines and fathered a whole bunch of children.
3. They are apart for ten years. Time stands still for the male lead, while the female lead finds a lover and has an adult relationship.
The next book is The High-and-Mighty Beauty, Defiled. Add it to your favorites if you're interested. Here's the blurb:
Xie Yulang, born into a distinguished family, is as handsome as an orchid tree and as elegant as jade. Yet he is cold and proud, the unattainable dream of countless young women in the capital.
Ji Yao comes from humble beginnings and knows how far apart they are in status. She has never dared to dream of him. All she wants is to find herself a dependable husband and live an ordinary, peaceful life.
When Second Young Master Xie asks his elder brother for permission to marry Ji Yao, he is actually quite nervous.
Ji Yao's background will do nothing to advance his career, and she is certainly not the sort of prestigious bride his elder brother would approve of. But she is so delicate and alluring that he cannot help loving her.
In the study, his upright and principled elder brother sits straight-backed behind a large desk. After listening to his halting request, he lowers his long, narrow eyelids, concealing his thoughts.
Only after a long pause does he speak. His voice is hoarser than usual. “A Zhao, you're not a child anymore. You should think more about your future.”
His elder brother is so considerate, thinking of him in every possible way. Though Second Young Master Xie is disappointed, he does not dare blame him. But he has no idea…
No idea that after he leaves, the candle flames flicker in the study.
His elder brother drags Ji Yao, her raven hair in disarray, out from beneath the desk. His calloused fingertips grind hard against her split red lips as he watches her angry almond eyes and smiles. “What is this? Are you blaming me for ruining your chance at a good marriage?”
The so-called cousin staying in the household is vain, hypocritical, flirtatious, and full of lies. Xie Yuze has always disdained her.
When he shuts her out, he never imagines that one day he will break his own moral code, defy family ethics, and steal her away from another man just to possess her, becoming the very sort of person he once despised.
Theme: Respect is the foundation of love.
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The male protagonist is really a high-energy person. While he is wasting his life and soul chasing his wife in modern times, he has already become emperor in ancient times 🙏
Hey, I thought it would take more than 100 chapters to finish, but I didn't expect it to end at chapter 6.7. It was a bit of a hasty and scrawled ending. I no longer expect the two people to be sweet and happy. They will never be the same person. They can be infinitely close but never intersect. It was very painful to catch up on the update at the beginning, and I was very tired in the later stages. I was exhausted and wanted to finish it, but I didn't expect that it would be finished in only six or seven chapters, which was quite sad. There was a feeling of expecting a big drama but it ended abruptly.
In fact, it looks very sad. Because time does not flow, the heroine can "live" for two lifetimes, so in a sense, she has seen the death of the hero and his son.
I feel like this ending is very good. Both the male and female protagonists are fulfilled, and they can grow up together with their parents.
After all, it can be said that both of them have achieved their own perfection. Continue to watch extras: the female protagonist is reborn; the male protagonist is reborn; two twins 🐶
In the extra chapter, I want to read about Xiao Yan's mother's time-travel agency. The heroine's first accidental time-travel lasted for more than a year, and the timeline did not move when she went back. This time she took the initiative to time-travel, resigned and informed her parents, and the two timelines seemed to flow at the same time. What happened? And how did Wei Chunniang wear it? Did she go back? If her time travel was also an accident, Xiao Yan's mother still used her to write papers and use people as guinea pigs. How cruel.
After working in each profession for a long time and deepening it, you will have the feeling of "hating one profession" [Lie down]
Why do I feel that the male protagonist's mother is worse and less humane than the male protagonist and his father? Is it an illusion? [Question mark]
I really like the setting of Xi Ran and Xiao Ren. I got the [Orange Candy]
Although it feels a bit rushed, how can it not be considered another kind of HE?