[Delicate beauty x loyal attack dog]
[The hero is muscular and extraordinarily strong. The heroine is a frail, clever beauty, but her health will improve later. One-on-one romance, happy ending.]
Rong Yu's beauty was renowned throughout Jiangnan, but she had been frail and sickly since childhood.
In her previous life, just as the new emperor was about to return to the capital after a victorious campaign, a palace matron forced her to drink an entire pot of poison.
Rong Yu had some idea why: the new emperor loathed her family.
A year earlier, her father, Prince Anyang, was the only noble of non-imperial blood in the Great Yong dynasty. He commanded his own forces in Jiangnan and had long been seen as a threat by the court, which wanted him eliminated. Xiao Jingzhuo, then still crown prince, had been sent to investigate by imperial decree. But he was ambushed, poisoned and rendered mute, and his martial arts were crippled. He collapsed near Prince Anyang's residence.
Prince Anyang was away with the army that day, so his hot-tempered wife personally interrogated the stranger.
She wielded her whip with uncanny skill. Taking him for a spy, she beat Xiao Jingzhuo until he was covered in whip marks and gravely injured.
Xiao Jingzhuo happened to be in disguise. He could only endure the brutal beating, then lie low in the residence for several months before finally leaving.
*
Reborn, Rong Yu rushed to the front courtyard, only to find that Xiao Jingzhuo had already been whipped. He was drenched by the cold rain and looked utterly miserable.
Rong Yu: "..."
Knowing Xiao Jingzhuo didn't want to reveal his identity, she told her mother she wanted him as a guard. In reality, she treated him like royalty, all in the hope that he wouldn't kill her in this life.
On the night before they parted, Rong Yu went as usual to bring him something to eat, intending to make one last performance of it. But the man suddenly grabbed her slender wrist. "Miss Rong."
He looked at her with dark phoenix eyes. "Do you like me?"
*
After Xiao Jingzhuo returned to the capital, a woman often appeared in his dreams. She was frail and slender, seeming ready to topple in the wind, yet so delicate and beautiful that she was beyond compare.
He lay awake night after night, until at last he could no longer restrain himself and began to desire her for himself.
One night, an attendant's report outside his tent woke him. "Your Highness, we've caught a woman."
Xiao Jingzhuo, full of impatience, strode outside. He yanked open the sack, revealing the face he had longed to see day and night. Sheltered by the darkness, she had fallen into a deep sleep, her skin still as white as jade.
His thin lips curved into a smile, and he murmured in a low, husky voice, "...This time, you came to me of your own accord."
Reader's Notes:
1. In her previous life, the hero did not kill the heroine.
2. The author has become hopeless at writing titles and blurbs. Previous titles: Taming the Wolf and Breaking the Jade Branch.
Theme: Kindness and care are the cure for the human world
If I don't follow the new trend, I feel like I'm going to give up writing.
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Huahua, I will definitely pursue my wife in the future!
Will the prince pursue his wife's crematorium in the future? Will he take revenge on the palace in the future? [Changed]
It's too early to say it. As long as the heroine is here, we can't destroy it.
The vicious female supporting characters in many novels have aunts and cousins with the heroine. Can jealousy really change a person beyond recognition and hurt their loved ones?