After My Childhood Friend Took Me by Force

Chatterbox VS Silent Type

Unconventional Noblewoman VS Aloof, Secretly Passionate Powerful Official

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Rong Suining incurred a debt of love at a very young age.

The other party was her childhood follower, a quiet boy who hardly ever spoke. But Rong Suining was young and naive, and because she liked his face, she was always blurting out that she wanted to be Xiao Yinhuai's bride.

Whenever she said this, Xiao Yinhuai would grow even quieter. Only after Rong Suining pestered him relentlessly for an answer would he give a rather emotionless "Mm."

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Later, Rong Suining left her hometown and returned to the capital. She was gone for ten years.

Now, Rong Suining was the brilliant and breathtaking legitimate daughter of the Rong family, a noble young lady whom all the capital's eligible bachelors hoped to marry.

She had long since forgotten the quiet boy who used to spend time with her back in the countryside, let alone the childish promise of marriage she had once made to him without thinking.

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Later still, Prince Qi staged a coup. The Crown Prince led troops to put down the rebellion, plunging the whole country into turmoil. Most of the capital's noble households were ravaged by fire, killing, and looting. The Rong family suffered a calamity and was left severely weakened.

As it happened, Rong Suining was due to be married, which allowed her to escape the disaster.

But the face that lifted her red bridal veil on her wedding night was one that gradually grew familiar as her memories returned.

Xiao Yinhuai wore a smile that never reached his eyes. His voice was cold as he said, "You've kept me waiting, my wife."

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Xiao Yinhuai had once gone to the Rong family to ask for Rong Suining's hand. At the time, he was an orphan from a family of farmers for generations. He was driven out, enduring the mocking looks of the Rong family's servants.

He thought he would remember those people's faces forever.

Later, he learned that they had not been Rong family servants at all.

They were servants brought by the hypocrite Rong Suining had been engaged to, throwing their weight around on their master's behalf.

Without their master's indulgence, how could servants dare behave so wantonly? Fawning on those above them and bullying those below, how could his wife possibly like a man like that?

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Later still, Prince Qi's treason was exposed, and her intended groom, one of his chief supporters in his bid for the throne, was arrested and imprisoned.

At the same time, with the groom behind bars, Xiao Yinhuai entered the ready-made bridal chamber with a smile.

How could his wife marry anyone else?

--2026.8.10

Theme: What one cannot have in youth will haunt them for the rest of their life.