A Lifetime, One Bodhi

Forced to Marry My Obsessive Nemesis is currently updating. Its blurb is at the end.

Li Lihan transmigrates into the body of Princess Gaoyang, Li Shimin's seventeenth daughter.

Thinking of her infamous affair with the monk Bianji, she prays she won't run into him.

That day, pear blossoms drift like snow outside the Dazongchi Temple. Beneath a pear tree, a handsome monk with striking features is reading a book.

Monk: "Buddha is my faith."

Her: "I have a faith, too."

Monk: "What do you believe in?"

Her: "Love!"

The monk trembles.

Her: "What's your religious name?"

Monk: "Bianji."

Now it's her turn to tremble.

Decades later

The same place, the same pear blossoms.

Lying in his arms, she gathers her last bit of strength. "In our next life, I'll make sure you become a Buddha."

He weeps bitterly. "I stopped wanting to become a Buddha long ago..."

Blurb for Forced to Marry My Crazy Nemesis:

Du Ruoqing is a noble young lady of exceptional beauty, and a brilliant pipa player. She is the most sought-after bride among the aristocratic families of the capital.

Then disaster strikes the Du family, and she is sold into slavery.

One day, a graceful young man in white happens to pass by. He glances at her and tosses out a bag of gold to buy her.

That man is Zhou Shaoan, the Du family's enemy.

That night, by the faint light of a candle, behind gauzy curtains, the man removes his clothes, revealing a firm chest. He presses the tip of the knife in her hand against himself. "Tonight, either you kill me, or I take you!"

Later, all it takes is for him to speak a little harshly, and she flees with a round belly and a bundle on her back. The man rides after her and blocks her way. "You're already so far along, and you're still running! You really know how to worry me."

Later still, as he dries her freshly washed feet, his eyes full of tenderness, he thinks to himself: Let's see if you'll still be willing to run away after this!

Theme: Don't bow to fate, and fate will look kindly upon you.