A righteous, hot-blooded, domineering male lead x a delicate, frail beauty
As a minor figure in a cultivation family, Ning Qinglian's greatest pleasure is curling up at home to read stories about domineering male leads after finishing a mission.
Especially since this particular story has a character with the same name as him, and that character is so lucky!
Sure, he's a disposable fiance who appears in the male lead's early broken-engagement plot and gets humiliated later on, but he still wants to experience a life where people bring him tea and water the moment he frowns!
After returning from a mission and staying up until four in the morning, Ning Qinglian thinks this and promptly dies from overwork...
But when he really transmigrates to a world where he's standing in front of the male lead himself, Ning Qinglian realizes that he was only a fan of the idea of a domineering male lead. Aaaah!
So while the male lead is down on his luck, of course he should break off their engagement in the harshest possible terms!
But when Ning Qinglian sees that the male lead, having lost all his power, is about to be bullied, he still decides to claim him for himself to bully. Ahem, to protect.
"Hey, you people from the Baili family! You got dumped by the Ning family today and think you can just run off? You're all staying here as hostages!"
The Baili family juniors who had come along to laugh at Baili Tinghong had already been wondering how they would bully that damned genius once they got home. They never expected the fire to spread to them, and could only look toward the elder who had accompanied them.
This couldn't be real, could it? There were so many of them. Could the Ning family really detain them all just like that?
But Ning Qinglian's parents, seeing their well-behaved baby fly into such a rage for the first time, were entirely in agreement.
"That's right, Lianlian! The Baili family can't even look after a child-bridegroom. Now that he's practically been delivered to your door, you think you can just run away?"
The Ning family was so powerful that even ten Baili families together wouldn't be a match for them. Baili Tinghong had been raised by his family for years, and without even thinking, he immediately knelt down.
"This unworthy Baili Tinghong has been fortunate enough to receive your favor and become engaged to the eldest young master, but I am unworthy of fulfilling our betrothal. Today, I offer this broken body to serve the eldest young master for life. I willingly become a lowly servant and serve him until the end of my days. I beg the eldest young master to let the rest of the Baili family return home."
A lowly servant is someone who can never buy back their freedom, and whom the master of the household may beat, kill, or sell at will.
Ning Qinglian doesn't understand what this means, but why is the domineering male lead protecting the bad people who wanted to bully him?!
"Y-you, get up."
The above is what happened when Ning Qinglian first woke up and faced the male lead. When he wakes up a second time and faces the male lead at the height of his power, he is very quick to read the situation and act meek.
"How about... how about we just go through with the engagement after all? Dear husband~"
Baili Tinghong, now a man who inspires terror wherever he goes, slowly drops to one knee and looks at the lover who has forgotten everything.
"Are you still willing?"
Please note:
1. The Ning family is greater than ten Baili families, so the Ning family must be a Ten-Baili, a Thousand-Baili family. They must raise thousand-mile horses, and by the same logic, have thousand-mile tables and thousand-mile chairs... (just kidding)
Baili family: mildly furious! (Diameter under 50 km. Only the Baili family can see their anger level. The Thousand-Baili family, uh, the Ning family, won't detect it.)
2. Baili Tinghong is still so devoted that he was born to be Ning Qinglian's top. The original novel's plot has collapsed.
3. Ning Qinglian's frailty can be alleviated. Hee hee hee, guess what medical miracle will do it.
4. Five adorable little ones will appear. When they do, you're all welcome to guess their names!
5. Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Golden Core, Nascent Soul, Deity Transformation, Void Refinement, Body Integration, Mahayana
Coming soon: "The Top Scholar Feels Guilty"
Top Scholar Shen Nian has rendered great service in helping the emperor seize the throne. When the new emperor ascends, the first thing he does is marry Shen Nian's legitimate older sister as his empress, with a grand wedding procession stretching a hundred li.
Word has it that after the wedding, the emperor and empress are deeply in love. The new emperor spends every night in the empress's chambers, and the empress works day and night, so hard that she hasn't even stepped outside the palace gates.
When Shen Nian hears the news, his legitimate mother has just sent him in a small sedan chair through the side gate of some family's home, and he has no idea whose.
The palace walls feel bleak. Shen Nian doesn't want the new emperor to enjoy the blessings of two spouses, so he escapes.
As it happens, he runs straight into the arms of the older boy next door, who grew up with him.
His neighbor has a talent for business and has already prepared ten thousand taels of gold as a betrothal gift for him.
But later, Shen Nian smiles brightly in the young general's arms, because the general promises to make him his one and only male spouse.
Later still, Shen Nian appears dressed in the plain white mourning clothes of a widow, while the refined, distinguished top scholar beside him looks at him with an almost overflowing possessiveness.
But the new emperor, left alone in an empty room every night, holds a grudge over all of this. In the end, he once again keeps Shen Nian imprisoned at his side.
If you can't bear to clip the wings of a bird and lock it away, then you should be the one to break every branch it could perch on.
Theme: Love brings endless vitality.
