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Nan Ying rescued a pale-faced scholar from an assassination attempt and brought him back to her residence as her live-in husband.
On their wedding night, she took him by force.
He gazed at her with reddened eyes, looking utterly ravaged.
After they married, life was sweet and fulfilling.
By day, he washed clothes, cooked meals, made the bed, and waited on her hand and foot.
At night, she was on top and he was underneath, and they made love passionately, their bodies entwined.
Until she discovered the short blade he had hidden, and the comrade who had shown her affection was ruined.
She confronted him.
He lowered his eyes, his voice still soft. "What are you talking about, my lady? I don't understand."
One night, he suddenly rolled over and pinned her down. For the first time, there was no mist in those usually reddened phoenix eyes.
He bent over her, his voice low and hoarse. "Yingying, don't you want a child? Let me help you."
That night, his kisses landed on her forehead, nose, lips, and every inch of her skin, carrying all the ferocity he had suppressed for so long.
The candlelight flickered all night. She was so exhausted that she didn't even have the strength left to bite his shoulder.
She couldn't keep him by her side anymore.
The next day, she drove him out of the General's Residence.
Later, she married someone else.
Later still, the imperial army stormed the General's Residence.
Pei Heng stood at the head of the troops, dressed in a black python-embroidered robe, a long saber at his waist.
By then, he was the Imperial Guard's Commander-in-Chief, and she was a newly widowed woman.
He cornered her and brushed his fingertip across the child's cheek, smiling tenderly and ominously.
"Yingying, give me a child and I'll let you go, all right?"
- 1v1, SC, HE
- Bold, beautiful wild rose x gloomy fake scholar
- Not a story about the male lead abusing the female lead. Her remarriage has its reasons. The child is the male lead's daughter, and there is no second pregnancy.
Theme: Breaking free from society's shackles and bravely choosing one's own life
