[Coming soon: My Aloof Cousin Regrets It Too Late. Blurb below.]
[This story: The cold, obsessive Duke of State × a beautiful, resilient young woman]
Su Nian's father and stepmother schemed to make her the concubine of Second Master Ye. By a twist of fate, however, she caught the attention of another man in the Ye family: Ye Minghe, Duke of Chu.
Everyone knew Ye Minghe. Not only was he handsome and dashing, he was also a King of Hell who punished corrupt officials and a fearsome warrior who guarded the northwest. He was proud and stern, and any woman who dared to provoke him would be punished.
After losing her virtue, Su Nian had no choice but to kneel before Ye Minghe in tears. "You won't be losing anything either. Please, Duke, let me go..."
Ye Minghe despised Su Nian's behavior
She was entangled with his grandnephew.
She was involved with Second Master Ye.
She was flirting ambiguously with her childhood sweetheart.
And... now she'd set her sights on him, too.
But after promising his ailing maternal grandmother he'd go along with her matchmaking, he had no choice but to take Su Nian as his concubine. Of course, he knew it was only in name. He would never fall for a woman who attracted men wherever she went. Once his grandmother passed away in six months, he would return the concubinage papers without hesitation and let Su Nian go.
Until one day, he saw Su Nian leaving another man's residence, leaning against him as she complained about her troubles...
Su Nian was looking forward to the end of those six months, too.
But Ye Minghe seemed to have gone mad. First, he shut her away in a derelict garden and ignored her. Then, he flew into a rage if she said even one extra word to a man.
He deliberately served her cilantro, which she hated. Then he took her to the best restaurant in Chang'an and watched carefully as she took a few bites.
He ripped into his scumbag grandnephew for her, forcing the man's head down and making him call her "Auntie."
He openly took sides against Second Master Ye for her.
He got into a street fight with her childhood sweetheart, landing punch after punch.
Before the six-month deadline was up, Ye Minghe tore up their agreement in public and insisted on marrying her.
With immense wealth and the all-around, no-stone-unturned service of a handsome duke, Su Nian thought that marrying Ye Minghe might not be so bad.
Just as she was about to agree, Ye Minghe said, "But you have to get rid of the child in your belly."
What a bastard. Pah!
One day, while inspecting the northwestern frontier, Ye Minghe unexpectedly discovered that the physician treating the soldiers with acupuncture was the concubine he'd searched for frantically for five years.
What he couldn't bear was that his concubine had a child with another man. Watching her cherish the little one like a precious treasure left him with a lump in his throat.
But to win her back, he'd have to grit his teeth and not strangle the child. The child's father, however, had to die...
Also known as I Want to Kill Myself
1. The male lead's eyesight is mostly restored from the start.
2. Lots of melodramatic tropes [secret pregnancy and escape + chasing his wife + split personality + ...], so it's a chaotic mix that may give you heartburn.
3. Fictional setting. Don't scrutinize the details.
4. Both leads are virgins. Happy ending.
[Blurb for My Aloof Cousin Regrets It Too Late]
Everyone knew that Meng Siyao's dream of marrying Xie Junyuan was hopeless.
Though born into a prominent ducal family, she was an overlooked, unloved daughter of a concubine. But she didn't seem to mind. She called Xie Junyuan "Cousin" along with her legitimate sisters and went to great lengths to win his favor.
Xie Junyuan was the heir to a first-rank prince of the current dynasty. Handsome as moonlight and always proper and refined, if he were to marry into the ducal family, he would take a legitimate daughter, his proper cousin, as his wife.
Though he disliked Meng Siyao's behavior, his good upbringing meant he never slighted her. He only reminded her not to get too close to him.
One day, after eating pastries she'd made herself, he felt an unbearable heat throughout his body, while her voice kept ringing in his ears, calling him "Cousin" again and again...
At the crucial moment, he suddenly came to his senses and realized he'd nearly fallen into a trap.
Furious, he scolded her: "A courtesan's tricks are shameless!"
When word got around, everyone laughed at Meng Siyao for using such despicable means to marry Xie Junyuan.
This time, she cared. She wiped away her tears and walked away.
With Meng Siyao no longer pursuing him, Xie Junyuan should have felt relieved.
But during an autumn hunt, he saw her riding alongside a young man who'd come with her, the two of them behaving intimately...
Xie Junyuan prided himself on being a strict rule-follower, yet he used the very means he despised most to seduce Meng Siyao, all because he wanted to marry her as soon as possible.
Meng Siyao refused to give in and said coldly, "A male courtesan's tricks are despicable!"
Theme: Resilience is needed in adversity.
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Heroine, run away. There is a child with a dark psychology around you, and a man who says he loves you but doesn't trust you at all. Run away.
Hahahahaha Xu Qingyan is so funny
Ye Zihui's personality is much better. At least he will ask Su Nian what he thinks.
Fortunately, Xu Qingmiao is not a love brain
Torturing the male protagonist vigorously, Su Nian was dragged forward by her father and the male protagonist from the very beginning. No one even asked her if she wanted to
Ye Xuan is so hypocritical. He is obviously afraid of breaking off the relationship with King Jing, but he still creates a love image for himself. Mrs. Ye would have to sigh in the underground.
Then Ye Yang wouldn't have started working for the Xianbei people after meeting Wei Ci's mother, right? He was just using his death in battle to fake his death.
Can Ji Luorui not be driven crazy by the evil done by Mrs. Ye and Ye Xuan? The most pitiful one is the male protagonist.
Was the sound in the room before made by He An? The current behavior of the male protagonist is so irritating. The female protagonist was also a victim when she was drugged. In order to make the old lady happy, he made the female protagonist a concubine. If you don't like her, then just keep her as a mascot. Why should you bully her?
The male protagonist's grandmother is equivalent to the male protagonist's mother, Ji Chong's grandmother, and is called his uncle. Isn't this related? The uncle is his mother's brother. The male protagonist's mother should be Ji Chong's father's sister, aunt, and Ji Chong should be called his cousin, right?