Who Got Him Worked Up This Time?!

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Lan Shu was cast aside by her family and made to marry her cousin's place to the violent, ugly Demon Lord as a political bride. Everyone said she wouldn't survive a month.

On her wedding night, Lan Shu watched the Demon Lord storm into her room with murder in his eyes and a knife in hand, and decided the rumors were only half true.

Though his eyes were covered, it was obvious that his ugliness was a lie, but his foul temper was all too real.

The people outside had guessed right: she really might not live out the month.

As he swung at her, Lan Shu stiffened her neck and cried, "Wait!"

The curved blade stopped an inch from her face. The young Demon Lord's hand trembled as he held it there. After a full quarter of an hour, Lan Shu ventured, "It's a bad omen to see blood on the wedding night. Why don't you sleep first, and we can talk tomorrow?"

The Demon Lord crushed the knife in his hand, tore off his blindfold in a rage, roughly ripped off his wedding robes, and lunged at her, gritting out, "Then let's sleep!"

Pinned down, Lan Shu: "...What?"

Was that really the kind of sleep she meant?

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On their wedding day, Yan Guanhan recovered memories of his past lives. A woman had killed him six times.

In his previous lives, knowing nothing, he had quickly fallen in love with his frail bride, who had been sent in someone else's place.

He had given her his whole heart, laid the world's most precious treasures at her feet, and in the end, she had run him through with a sword or silenced him with poison... The ways he died were endless.

The sixth time she killed him, he swallowed the blood in his throat, gripped the hand holding her sword, and asked, "Can someone like you really have a heart?"

When he was reborn and opened his eyes again, he was still in the same cold, empty hall. A guard asked whether he wanted to meet the new bride who had just arrived.

But this time, he remembered all six lives in which she had killed him, along with the hatred he had felt as he died.

Fortunately, he hadn't fallen for her yet.

Yan Guanhan sneered, grabbed his knife, and charged to Lan Shu's chambers. He would kill her before she could scheme her way into his life and make him fall in love with her.

This time, he covered his own eyes. He would never fall for her just from one look!

He kicked open the door and swung his blade. Her clear, unruffled "Wait" reached his ears. His hatred surged, but his heart pounded too.

After a long standoff, he crushed the knife in his hand.

Damn it.

Could he fall in love at first sight just from hearing her voice?

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Lan Shu: Who did he get mad at this time? Every day, he calls me a woman with a heart as poisonous as a snake's.

Yan Guanhan: Next time I'm reborn, I'll remember to cover my ears!

[A clever, frail, carefree beauty who loves to laze around x A bad-tempered Demon Lord who seems to hate her but is actually head over heels for her]

* Not an angsty novel. Not an angsty novel. A lighthearted little sweet treat~

* The heroine really was involved in the hero's deaths in his first six lives, but she isn't evil. She's frail at first, but her health will gradually improve.

* The hero has a foul temper and a sharp tongue. He's a prideful type who talks himself into falling for her, and he's always losing his temper.

--- Blurb captured on March 20, 2026.

Theme: True love conquers all.