The Villain I Raised Became My Husband

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Newly appointed top scholar Su Bai is elegant, gentle, and refined, with a cool, captivating face. Word is that he's unmarried, and women throughout the capital are throwing handkerchiefs at him. Even the princess wants him for herself and plans to make him her consort, but he refuses her to her face.

"This humble subject is already married, and I have a marriage contract to prove it. I can only decline Your Highness's kind offer."

Yu Yan, who has been busy arranging a marriage for Su Bai, is stunned when she hears the news. She has been by his side for ten years without ever leaving him. How could she not know whether he's married?

"Tell me! When and where did you marry, and who did you marry? How come I never heard a thing?"

"On my birthday, we made our vows as proof and drew up a marriage contract. Of course I married you. Yan Yan, have you forgotten?"

Su Bai closes in step by step. Yu Yan retreats guiltily, only then remembering that she'd once promised to marry the top scholar. But she never agreed to marry Su Bai.

"I... I used to be your mother!"

"Do you really think anyone would believe that, Yan Yan?"

Su Bai grits his teeth. Yu Yan looks at him, more than half a head taller than her, and is speechless.

"Well, I'm still your older sister, and I'm ten years older than you."

"Have you forgotten, Yan Yan? According to the family register, you're now half a year younger than me. We're childhood sweethearts, a match made in heaven."

Su Bai grips Yu Yan's chin, close enough for her to feel his breath. He has waited ten years for the woman he loves. Now that he's finally come this far, how could he let her slip away? Anyone who dares get in his way can die.

Curled up in Su Bai's arms, Yu Yan nods frantically. How could she have forgotten that he's actually a possessive man?

I thought I'd raised my future husband, but it turns out he thinks the same about me.

Warnings: 1. They raise each other. The heroine is nearly ten years older than the hero physically. The hero is reborn, and is ten years older than the heroine mentally.

See the synopsis for The Mad Beauty in the Junior Tutor's Quarters in my collection.

Xu Jinhe is bewitchingly beautiful, with fragrant cheeks and snow-white skin. Beneath that lovely exterior, however, lies the heart of a venomous serpent. Feared by her imperial brother, she is sent to marry the Third Prince of Qi Dynasty.

Junior Tutor Wen Woyu is refined and scholarly, with a graceful bearing. When he first meets Xu Jinhe, she invites him to watch the prince and his concubines in their springtime revels. From then on, he does everything he can to avoid her.

But after just one meeting, Xu Jinhe decides he is hers to toy with, and makes him lose every shred of composure.

"How much longer does the princess intend to humiliate me?" Amid the spring curtains, their breaths mingling, Wen Woyu grips Xu Jinhe's slender neck, his eyes bloodshot and his voice husky.

He is a member of the former dynasty's royal family, hiding here to overthrow Qi Dynasty. The prince he meant to use as a puppet has had his path to the throne cut off by Xu Jinhe. His plans for the kingdom have collapsed, and years of careful work have been destroyed. How could he accept this?

Xu Jinhe's delicate fingers brush over Wen Woyu's throat. Her voice is as soft as orchids. "It's just a mutually willing affair. Has the junior tutor gotten too caught up in the role?"

Wen Woyu truly believes it's all just a show of false affection, until Xu Jinhe is trapped by enemy forces because of his schemes, and he arrives with reinforcements far too late.

He sees a flash of crimson beneath the biting wind on the city wall. The blood has dried, her face is disfigured, and only then does Wen Woyu feel his heart twist and his soul shatter.

Dressed in coarse hemp and white robes, he keeps vigil beside Xu Jinhe's mutilated body, sharing her bed and returning to the capital with her coffin.

But at a palace banquet, he sees Xu Jinhe in a brilliant red dress, imperious and dazzling.

"Jinhe, my heart is clear and true. It belongs to you alone."

"As a princess consort, I trust the junior tutor will mind his place and not overstep."

Reader's guide: 1. The heroine is genuinely unhinged, the kind who will kill.

2. To be decided.

Also available: The Little Eunuch in the Coffin Shop, This Old Woman Insists on Staying a Widow, The Crown Prince's Moonlight Married Someone Else, and A Beauty Need Not Furrow Her Brows. All are complete and ready to binge.

Theme: Only after enduring hardship can you clear the clouds, see the moon, and achieve what you desire.