The Cold, Ruthless Young General Saved Me a Thousand Times

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CP: Young general who dotes on his wife x marquis’s daughter skilled at training dogs

#The heroine sets fires, the hero fans the flames#

#Be the most loyal dog, be the servant beneath her skirts#

Related to "After I Faked My Death, My Adoptive Father’s Regrets Came Too Late." See the author’s profile.

Blurb:

I.

On New Year’s Eve, at a solitary pavilion by the water, the four sons of Emperor Yuanhe had all wronged Fu Minghe.

She was the legitimate daughter of the Marquis of Jiangyin. Since her reputation had been ruined, the emperor let her choose her own marriage.

But the marquis’s household pressured her to serve another prince and attach herself to the beast she despised.

At a loss, Fu Minghe thought of Chu Chen, heir to a vassal prince.

Even though the young general Chu carried a top-secret secret and believed he was fated to have no wife, resolved to live and die alone...

Rather than become entangled with the princes again and again, why not marry that young general?

II.

Another New Year’s Eve palace banquet came around. The women at the feast were still gossiping about Fu Minghe, famed as the most beautiful woman in the capital.

They said that if Fu Minghe hadn’t debased herself that New Year’s Eve, the princes would never have all been involved with her.

Fu Minghe sat calmly among them, her rosy lips curving, then she raised her eyes coldly and glanced at Chu Chen with a faint, mocking smile.

The commander of the Northern Army, a young heir to a vassal prince, overturned the table of the woman at the head of the group at one cold glance from her, then drew his long saber and held it to the woman’s throat.

The Prince of Beining ruled over half of Great Xia. The heir dared to run wild in the palace hall, yet no one dared criticize him, and no one dared make another sound.

In the deathly silence of the hall, Fu Minghe smiled coldly again, her eyes glittering and her beauty enough to captivate all under heaven.

She looked at the young man standing alone, who had repeatedly saved her in times of danger and wielded his long saber for her.

Everyone saw a vicious, bloodthirsty wolf. Only she saw her most obedient dog.

He had been there too. He knew what had really happened to her that New Year’s Eve.

And she knew his secret, the most sordid, hidden secret, the one that could destroy him.

Chu Chen was her dog.

She held his life in her hands.

III.

Once, the general had been loyal and righteous.

In the end, he betrayed the emperor, killed the princes, and threw the court into chaos.

If you asked why,

It was only so he could be the servant beneath his beloved wife’s skirts, her sinful servant.

Little scenes:

1

Fu Minghe: "Chu Chen, marry me."

Chu Chen: "Thanks for asking, but I don’t believe in marriage."

2

Fu Minghe: "Chu Chen, marry me."

Chu Chen: "Thanks for asking... Wait, are you going to keep a dog?"

3

Fu Minghe: "Chu Chen, marry me."

Chu Chen: "Anyone who dares badmouth my wife, I’ll fucking cut them down!"

Content warnings:

1. The heroine starts out as a sweet, innocent girl with a genius face, then becomes a cold, beautiful, unhinged black lotus.

2. The hero is naturally loyal and dutiful, a well-behaved boy, but the heroine drags him down into the abyss. Whether the dog is wild depends on how you train him.

3. The emperor is not the heroine’s stepfather or adoptive father. She is his adopted daughter in name only and has a princess’s title, but no royal blood. She is not in the imperial family’s genealogy, is not an imperial princess, and is not ranked among the imperial children as a sibling.

4. Only a happy ending is guaranteed, not sexual purity. That applies to all my works. No moralizing about women’s or men’s chastity, please. Don’t relate this to real life or bring up other authors’ works. If you have your own content warnings, please avoid the story. If you want to drop it, feel free to leave quietly. Comments must be based on a legitimate copy, or they will be deleted immediately. No content-warning discussions in the comments; I have done my duty to warn readers. If you only read clean romances, proceed at your own risk~

5. No outside force can take away your happiness without your permission. No book of mine can dance on your content-warning landmines without your permission. If you’re unhappy or if the story triggered you... then I thank you for giving it permission.

[Recorded on 2019.03.23]

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[Next up]

"After I Faked My Death, My Adoptive Father’s Regrets Came Too Late"

"Between my career and me, Father, which will you choose?"

A rebellious orphan, turning back from the edge.

"The deceased daughter’s spirit watches over him as he falls into a love beneath his station."

An upright, powerful official, sinking into a sea of sin.

Blurb:

I.

The Cen siblings had an illicit relationship, conceived a child, and died in a fire after their affair was exposed.

On the day they were to be burned, the scholar Ci Yun Zhi secretly rescued the baby girl and took her to the capital to sit the imperial examination.

As Ci Yun Zhi’s adopted daughter, Ci Liang knew that the more he had once loved her birth mother, the more he despised her.

II.

Ci Liang resembled her mother, who had many admirers when she was alive.

Although Ci Yun Zhi hated Ci Liang and refused to look at her properly, he could not stop other men from seeing the memory of an old love in her.

One family friend treated her very well. So although Ci Liang knew his affection was false, she was willing to be a substitute and found it hard to pull away.

She craved his tender, fatherly kindness, and even returned it with romantic love.

When Ci Yun Zhi was about to be promoted, Ci Liang met the young man she truly loved.

She thought her adoptive father, who had always been stern and dignified and had tried so hard to stop her previous, twisted affair, would be pleased that she had finally turned over a new leaf and gladly accept the young man’s proposal.

III.

Ci Yun Zhi’s official authority radiated from him as he gripped her wrist and shoved her against the embroidered screen, pressing himself against her.

At her ear, he let out a contemptuous, cold laugh and whispered a cruel question.

"If he knew that Liang'er was the abomination born of incest... would he still ask to marry you?"

Ci Liang hated the tainted story of her birth. She hated that, with her adoptive father, she had shared a life of sin and little affection between parent and child.

But most of all, she hated being threatened and humiliated like this, powerless as he shattered the happy marriage she had hoped for.

Since only faking her death could set her free, Ci Liang kept it from her adoptive father and let go of everything.

She had once fallen into a daze of degradation. Now she had cut herself free of worldly attachments, but her adoptive father, always more clear-eyed than her, had gone mad and dragged her back into the sea of sin.

This time, she was still a substitute.

A substitute for herself, she was seized by both wrists by Ci Yun Zhi and forced back in front of the embroidered screen.

There were no scoldings or threats at her ear...

Ci Yun Zhi, now a high-ranking official, was more dignified than ever. Not knowing she was Ci Liang, he bent down and kissed her gently and reverently, as if he had regained a priceless treasure.

Content warnings:

1. When the male and female leads get together, they are not related by blood.

2. The heroine’s parents are not related by blood (the Cen family are not actually "siblings"; see the main story for details).

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"Thank You for Stealing My Husband (Reborn)": A brutal love triangle between my former husband, the prime minister, and my current partner, the crown prince.

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