After Personally Giving the Abstinent Heir His Antidote

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Blurb

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After the Lu family falls, their maid Wen Yu is sold to the Hongxiang Brothel for her beauty. The madam carefully trains her, hoping to sell her for a good price.

Unable to bear the humiliation, Wen Yu wants only to die.

But three days before her first night, a handsome, otherworldly man bursts into her room, wounded and poisoned, and begs her to let him use her body to draw out the poison.

Since she is going to die either way, she simply reaches up and unties her sash.

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Shi Mao, heir to the Duke of Ningyuan, is detached and indifferent by nature, and has never been interested in women. He never imagined that one day he would be framed by villains and forced to seek a courtesan's help to draw out poison.

He intends to reward her with gold and silver, but accidentally learns that she was a virgin. The next day, he surrounds the Hongxiang Brothel with the ducal residence's troops and interrogates the madam, but the woman has vanished without a trace.

Troubled and restless, Shi Mao attends a palace banquet. Amid the splendid crowd, he unexpectedly spots that familiar face, her radiant smile more fragrant than a hundred flowers.

When the emperor offers to arrange a marriage, Shi Mao is pressed for an answer until, in a daze, he raises his hand and points to the beautiful figure among the crowd.

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After marrying the heir, Wen Yu observes the rules of a proper wife and treats her husband with courteous respect.

She personally takes care of Shi Mao's clothes and daily needs;

When he is in hardship and short of money, she uses her dowry to help him through it;

When he is hunted and flees to the countryside, she stays by his side without wavering.

There is just one thing: she never agrees to consummate their marriage.

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Shi Mao has gotten a taste for her and can no longer contain his desire.

One day, his voice hoarse, he asks with wounded confusion:

"Why have you never been willing to love me?"

A tear of love slips down her cheek, and Wen Yu instinctively raises a hand to push him away.

Shi Mao grips her chin, and their lips and teeth entwine.

Outside the window, snow falls silently.

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The turmoil at court is settled, and Shi Mao has risen to the highest offices. When he returns home, his wife is gone, leaving behind only a divorce letter.

Wen Yu had promised to leave the splendor of the official world behind without looking back, but Shi Mao refuses to let her go.

He pursues her all the way to a border town, where he sees her happily laughing and chatting with a man beside her.

Jealousy surges in his heart. In the dark of night, he suddenly steps forward and pulls Wen Yu into his arms, nuzzling against her as he struggles to maintain his composure. "My lady is carrying the young heir. How can you do such rough work?"

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From the heroine's perspective: marriage of convenience + rekindled love

From the hero's perspective: falling in love after marriage + a long road to winning his wife back

Reading guide:

1. An alternate-world historical romance with one devoted couple, both physically and emotionally pure

An adorable, flirtatious sweetheart who doesn't know she's flirting x a cool, aloof heir as lofty as a mountain peak

2. Marriage of convenience + falling in love after marriage + winning his wife back

3. The blurb differs slightly from the main story; the main story takes precedence

Please add my upcoming story in the same genre, "Rising to the Top Early (Offering My Wife)," to your library!

Blurb

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Xie Yanyu, newly appointed deputy prefect of Shuntian, wants to make a name for himself and rise through the ranks.

Unfortunately, his superior is incompetent and ignorant, and takes no interest in governance.

Though Xie Yanyu is full of passion, his efforts are repeatedly thwarted. In a moment of discouragement, he considers taking a crooked path: the prefect loves stealing other men's wives, so perhaps he should offer his own wife to win the man's trust.

But after decades of living alone, where could he possibly get a wife?

As luck would have it, a woman collapses at the entrance to the Xie residence, so delicate and touching.

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Mu Yun is of Sogdian descent, breathtakingly beautiful, and born knowing how to captivate the soul.

She is perfect for seducing a powerful man.

Xie Yanyu has people teach her the art of handling a husband, intending for her to beguile the prefect and help him seize control of the whole prefecture.

Mu Yun is extraordinarily clever and learns at once. Yet she is also irresistibly alluring, with a natural gift for seduction, and men and women alike fall under her spell.

Xie Yanyu should be pleased, but little by little he realizes that, somehow, he has fallen in love with her.

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On the day he is supposed to offer his wife, a rebellion suddenly breaks out. Xie Yanyu plunges a knife into the Shuntian prefect's chest. He is going to take his wife back.

But when he turns around, he sees the delicate Mu Yun calmly wiping the blade in her hand, her gaze cold and sinister.

She lifts Xie Yanyu's chin with the back of the knife.

"What should I call you now, my... husband?"

It turns out she used her bewitching charms on him first.

Both leads are physically and emotionally pure | Pretending to be weak but truly ruthless x pretending to serve the emperor but truly scheming

Theme: Learn to cherish what you have.