Taken by My Late Husband's Archenemy

Blurb: Coercion / winning someone through force / face-slapping and winning back the wife / intense push and pull / melodrama / mostly sweet

(Good-natured, honest homemaker x crazy, ruthless general) / Falling for an enemy's wife /

Meng Chun learned that her husband had captured a man and was torturing him cruelly every day. Unable to bear it, she often snuck away to bring him water and food, and secretly applied medicine to his wounds.

When the man asked who she was, she hid her identity and claimed to be a servant in the Xue household.

Later...

The man escaped, then returned with an army to kill his way back.

Hiding in the shadows, she watched as he drove a silver spear through her husband's skull. He cut off the heads of everyone who had humiliated him and hung them on the city wall. His methods were savage and utterly ruthless!

Meng Chun tried to flee, but was discovered. The soldiers dragged her before him.

The man wore cold armor. He lifted the tip of his spear beneath her chin, forcing her to raise her head. Her tear-filled eyes met Shen Zhao's. His eyes narrowed. "It's you?"

The man lowered his spear. "You did me a kindness. In that case, stay by my side and serve me."

Meng Chun survived and became Shen Zhao's personal attendant, constantly terrified that he would discover she was Xue Sheng's wife and have her skinned alive and fed to the dogs.

But she gradually noticed that Shen Zhao often watched her. His dark, cold eyes fell on her from above, like a blade hanging over her head.

She could no longer endure the constant terror and found a chance to escape.

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Shen Zhao was a great general of the nation, slaying barbarians and protecting the capital. But after being betrayed by his own family, he fell into the hands of that damned Xue dog and endured humiliation day after day.

During the three months when he was at his most wretched, a woman calling herself Yun Ling secretly brought him water and food every day and quietly applied medicine to his wounds, keeping him alive long enough to escape Xue Sheng.

When he met Yun Ling again, he remembered that she had saved his life, so he kept her by his side as his personal maid.

Later, he thought he might as well take her as a concubine. That would be better than leaving her as a mere maid.

But before he could mention it to Yun Ling, his bodyguard suddenly reported that she had disappeared!

He launched an extensive search for her. Only then did he discover that both her name and her identity were false. There had never been a servant named Yun Ling in the Xue household!

--

Later, Shen Zhao learned from someone else that Xue Sheng had a wife who was still alive, with a tiny red mole at the corner of her eye. Yun Ling had a very similar mole in the same place.

After investigating further, he discovered that she wasn't a servant in the Xue household at all. She was that Xue dog's wife!

She had been lying to him from the very beginning!

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The moonlight was dim and deep, and the curtains were fragrant.

Shen Zhao cupped Meng Chun's face and kissed the red mole at the corner of her eye.

"Did he ever kiss you here?"

He gripped her waist tightly, his five tense fingers sinking into the soft flesh of her slender waist.

"Did he ever touch you here?"

"Was he as good to you as I am?"

"Which of us is better?"

1. The heroine is not a virgin, but the hero is.

Blurb finalized on July 12, 2026, screenshot saved.

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