[A short story you can finish in one sitting! Add it to your collection so you won't lose your way, ovo]
Cui Yuheng, an unremarkable pedantic teacher in Jiangning Prefecture, had one great wish in life: save up enough for the betrothal gifts, marry the young man his family had promised him as a child, and continue the Cui family's line, which had been carried on by a single son for three generations.
But one rainy night, when he went to Wangyue Tower to pick up his betrothed, he unexpectedly spent the night with the owner, Lu Ning...
Lu Ning was the city's most notorious wastrel. Using their night of reckless passion as leverage, he forced Cui Yuheng to visit him on the fifth of every month.
Every time, Cui Yuheng would turn red to the tips of his ears with anger. "Have you no shame?"
Lu Ning slipped an arm around his waist and teased him with a smile. "I've always been shameless, while you, sir, are so proper. We complement each other perfectly."
Cui Yuheng hated the scoundrel.
Lu Ning had ruined his good name and pinned him to the bed, forcing him to do things that defied all propriety.
But Lu Ning was the one who stepped forward to face the villain, and Lu Ning was also the one who rushed into the fire and shielded him with his own body...
On the day of his wedding to his betrothed, the wedding candles had burned halfway down. Just as Cui Yuheng hesitated, bandits arrived to abduct the bride.
Everyone rushed to protect her. No one expected that the bridegroom, Cui Yuheng, would be the one the bandits set their sights on.
Bound and dragged into a mountain cave, Cui Yuheng was terrified. Then the bandit's hideous mask came off, revealing a face as flawless as white jade and a pair of peach-blossom eyes he knew all too well.
"That young man is fine, so why am I not?" Lu Ning's voice was hoarse as he roughly yanked open the collar of Cui Yuheng's wedding robe.
#ForcefulPursuit #TheNewArrivalBeatsTheChildhoodFriend #NotTheMistressTakingOverButTheOfficialPartnerStealingTheBride
A poor, steadfast, honest teacher x a dissolute young master with absolutely no shame 😋
Theme: Love comes from nowhere, then takes root and runs deep.
