Gentle and kind heroine x brooding, unhinged hero [Drafting, thanks for bookmarking 😚]
Possessive pursuit / heroine has past experience, hero does not / melodrama / powerful man bows his head / strong hero, vulnerable heroine
After three years of marriage, Cui Mianyu and her husband were deeply in love and blissfully happy. Not long ago, she had become pregnant.
One day, while out, she passed the back hill and suddenly found a badly injured man lying unconscious.
Cui Mianyu was frightened, but he was still breathing. After much hesitation, she brought him home.
Thankfully, her husband only praised her kind heart when he found out, and didn't mind.
Cui Mianyu took the man in out of compassion. He was withdrawn and taciturn, but reasonably sensible. When her husband was away, he could chop wood, heat water, and feed the chickens and ducks.
Perhaps he had injured his head, but whenever they were alone, Cui Mianyu couldn't help feeling unnerved by his dark eyes.
...Especially when he stared at her.
After she had cared for him for three months, Cui Mianyu's belly grew larger by the day, and it was no longer appropriate to keep him at home. She discussed it with her husband, and they decided to give him some money and send him on his way.
But that night, a commotion suddenly broke out outside. The door was kicked open, and cavalry poured in.
Her husband clutched Cui Mianyu tightly, shielding her in his arms, panic-stricken.
The crowd parted. Cui Mianyu looked up and saw a familiar figure approaching.
Cheng Shixu stood before her, looking down at her with a calm expression and a soft voice.
"Are you going to throw me away, Cui Niang?"
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Cheng Shixu ascended the throne at seventeen. In just three years, the land was peaceful and the people prosperous.
When he went undercover to investigate officials in Jiangnan who were lining their pockets, Cheng Shixu was ambushed, fell off a cliff, and lost his senses.
Only when a soft finger brushed his brow did he open his eyes and see a voluptuous, beautiful woman.
He was about to speak when someone pushed open the door. The woman immediately abandoned him and threw herself into the man's arms.
She smiled and called him "husband."
Cheng Shixu's gaze dropped to the slight swell of her belly beneath her loose clothes.
He said he had lost his memory, was badly injured, and had nowhere to go.
Cui Mianyu really did take pity on him and let him stay.
Her husband was poor and lowly. For a few silver coins, he went out all day, leaving her alone at home.
As Cheng Shixu chopped wood, he couldn't help wondering:
Was her husband going hunting, or had he taken a mistress?
He thought,
If he had a wife like her, he would never leave her, day or night, not even in death.
Then he thought,
Being close gives one the first chance at the moon. If they had met, then fate must have brought them together.
After serving her faithfully for three months, she wanted to send him away.
Cheng Shixu expressionlessly crushed his ring and changed his mind.
He could put up with her carrying another man's child and not having him in her heart.
But she was meant to be his wife.
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The exalted emperor returned to the capital, hiding a village woman in his carriage.
She knelt on the soft couch, weeping pitifully, holding her pregnant belly as she quietly begged him to let her go.
"Cui Niang, save your strength. You can cry for me later."
He leaned close to her ear, his voice low and tender.
[Reading Guide]
The heroine has past sexual experience, while the hero does not. The heroine had a relationship with her first husband and is pregnant with his child.
During her marriage, the heroine had no emotional or physical involvement with the hero. Everything was one-sided harassment on his part.
The hero is brooding and cruel, with the entitled mindset of someone born to privilege. He can't accept the idea of cutting his losses in time.
Blurb screenshot dated 2026.08.12. Please don't imitate or borrow the premise, and please don't give writing advice.
I won't delete comments. No secondary couples.
Theme: Live well.
