A gentle-looking but ruthless, flirtatious wife x a cold on the outside, lovesick and obsessive powerful official
Rekindled love after heartbreak, a sea of hatred and passion. This story is not abandoned and updates daily.
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Liu Jiayue, a noble young lady from a prominent Yangzhou family, married Xie Zhicheng, a newly risen jinshi.
Three years into their marriage, Xie Zhicheng was promoted and returned to the capital, where he hosted a banquet to celebrate his new residence.
Inside the manor, music and dancing filled the air as guests raised their cups.
Outside, a frail-looking concubine, carrying a young child, knelt and demanded a proper title.
What should have been a celebratory banquet became Liu Jiayue's "banquet of humiliation."
Just as she was at a loss, a cool voice cut through the clamor in the courtyard:
"My nephew has behaved disgracefully and acted shamelessly. Don't let this embarrass you, niece-in-law. I will see that justice is done."
Everyone turned toward the speaker. A man in a dark purple official robe walked in at an unhurried pace, tall and straight, with cool, aloof features.
It was Xie Yin, the newly appointed Censor-in-Chief.
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Liu Jiayue would never believe that Xie Yin would see justice done for her,
because she was the person he hated most.
The old Marquis Xie had four sons, and Xie Yin was the youngest. By seniority, he was Xie Zhicheng's uncle, but his mother had been a household servant, so his status was low, and anyone could bully him.
The legitimate daughter of the Liu family, Liu Jiayue, often visited the manor, but she never bullied him.
To Xie Yin, Liu Jiayue was both a noble lady and a temptress.
She was alluring, uninhibited, and shamelessly flirtatious. Step by step, Xie Yin fell into the gentle trap she had woven.
Later, after Liu Jiayue's elder brother died, she suddenly married Xie Zhicheng, the legitimate grandson of the Xie family.
His lover became his niece-in-law.
Xie Yin demanded an explanation.
Liu Jiayue dismissed everything between them as a fated mistake, severing all their ties with a single sentence.
He hated her.
So Xie Yin would rather become cold-blooded and heartless than stop at anything to climb higher.
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Then Xie Zhicheng died a violent death the day after the celebration banquet.
After his death,
countless pieces of evidence pointed to Liu Jiayue.
Overnight, she went from a noblewoman of the court to a prisoner accused of killing her husband for revenge.
As she languished in prison, she thought of Xie Yin.
Her former lover was now not only powerful and influential, but also her relative by marriage.
At the trial, Liu Jiayue wept like a pear blossom in the rain, gazing at Xie Yin seated on the bench. "Fourth Uncle, does your promise from yesterday to see justice done for me still stand?"
The woman below wept so piteously that anyone would feel sorry for her. Xie Yin asked with a teasing smile, "Niece-in-law, you want me to see justice done? Then tell me, does that fated mistake from back then still stand?"
[Reading Guide]
1. The heroine isn't a virgin, but the leads were each other's first. Happy ending.
2. The heroine left the hero for a reason. She's not a heartless woman.
3. Pure historical romance, set in an alternate Song Dynasty, with some liberties.
4. Rekindled love, intense romantic tension, and a romance with a touch of mystery.
Theme: Never give your heart carelessly.
