Drink While the Wine Is Here

1. Si Yu is the beloved legitimate daughter of a general's household, raised in luxury and doted on by everyone. As a girl, she was headstrong and spoiled, and when she first fell in love, her sweetheart's honeyed words had her wrapped around his little finger. At sixteen, she resolutely broke off her engagement to her childhood friend, who had always run after her, and married the An Prince, the man she had long dreamed of. But before they had been married for two years, the General's household was wrongly accused and thrown into prison. Only then did she see that the man she had once loved had a heart as cruel as a snake's. Unable to bear her mother-in-law's torment and her concubine's humiliation any longer, she hung a white silk sash from a beam. Before she could kick away the stool beneath her, the heavily armed soldiers outside, there to confiscate the household, kicked the door open. Her childhood friend had become the chancellor, a man second to none. 2. The An Prince was convicted, and Si Yu, as his legitimate wife, was sentenced to exile. Someone with ulterior motives put a sack over her head on a wilderness path and sent her to Xie Yan's bed. “I heard this woman once broke your heart, my lord, and married the An Prince to climb the social ladder. This humble servant has brought her here. You may do as you please.” Xie Yan glanced indifferently at the figure kneeling on the far side of the bed, her face obscured. He remembered how resolutely she had faced death during the confiscation of her household, and figured that in a moment he would see her furious and defiant, refusing to submit even if it meant death. Instead, when Xie Yan calmly lifted the bed curtains, Si Yu looked up at him with shining eyes and asked softly, “My lord, are you going to bed?” Si Yu did not know that with just that one look, the feelings Xie Yan had kept hidden for five years began to grow wildly in his heart. From that moment on, he resolved never to let her escape his grasp again. Reader's guide and warnings: 1. One-on-one romance. The male lead is a virgin; the female lead is not. 2. Extremely sweet! 3. Fictional historical setting. Please don't nitpick. Theme: To be decided