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My new novel, Forced Marriage, is now underway. The blurb is at the bottom. Please add it to your favorites~~
A woman is a concubine, not a bride.
Taking a wife means marrying her; taking a concubine means making her a favorite.
Ever since the Meng family bought Zhuang Qingjin when she was five, she first became Meng Jiting’s maid and only later his concubine.
Amidst the lavish feasts and brocade, she was still just a lowly concubine.
★Reader’s guide:
1. The female lead is chaste, the male lead is not. She is his concubine, and he has a wife.
2. The male lead has an eldest legitimate son. All his other children are born to the female lead.
3. The male lead is a traditional patriarch with no belief in gender equality. He favors his concubine and does not love his wife.
4. There are sweet moments, but the angsty parts are very angsty too!
5. The female lead will eventually be made his legal wife.
6. Around 60% of the story will be behind an anti-piracy setting.
7. The characters’ values do not represent the author’s. If the above isn’t for you, please understand.
8. Life is hard, and writing isn’t easy. You can call the male lead trash and the female lead pathetic, and you can drop the story if it’s not for you, but please don’t leave a one-star rating or go around warning people away. Please.
New novel now underway. Please add it to your favorites
★New novel: Forced Marriage, a mutually chaste couple.
The Zhao family’s daughter from the Marquis of Wu’an’s estate picks a husband from among the new graduates of the imperial examination and sets her sights on the newly crowned third-place scholar, who is already engaged. To grant his sister’s wish, the young Marquis Zhao forcibly marries off Li Zhaozhao, who is engaged to Song Yi.
Forced into marriage, Li Zhaozhao faces a husband who ignores her after the wedding, still surrounded by women and unchanged in his womanizing ways. She feels neither joy nor sorrow, treating her life as a widow-like marriage.
Until one day, Li Zhaozhao notices that her husband’s gaze and attitude toward her have changed...
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After Zhao Song forcibly married Li Zhaozhao, the Li family daughter who stood in the way of his sister’s marriage prospects, he treated her like a piece of clothing he had no use for, tossing her into the back courtyard and ignoring her.
He had thought his wife was a submissive woman with no charm, until one day he saw her chop off the arm of a favorite concubine who had insulted her. Zhao Song couldn’t help seeing her differently.
Later, Zhao Song decided to treat his wife well, hoping they could live together in harmony, but she only wanted to be “respectful” and cold toward him.
Later still, he saw his cold, indifferent wife walking beneath a tree beside another man. The man raised a hand to shield her from rain dripping from the branches, and she looked up at him with a sweet smile. Onlookers cheered that they were a perfect match, like a pair of jade ornaments...
Zhao Song felt as though his heart had been stabbed, a bloody hole opening in his chest, because she had never smiled at him like that.
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The old Zhao Song: “Li Zhaozhao, you’d better act like a Buddha statue and fulfill your role as the Marchioness of Wu’an. Stop thinking about all that nonsense!”
The later Zhao Song: “Li Zhaozhao, have you attained enlightenment? Why can’t you love me?”
★A story about a man who seizes a woman against her will, falls at his wife’s feet and never gets back up, then chases her in a long, painful journey of redemption.★
Theme: Oppose feudal class oppression and cherish the good life we have now!
