The Heart-Stealing Beauty

[Coming soon: Spring's Allure; The Fussy Beauty Refuses to Be the Comparison Girl. Please add them to your reading list] Entering VIP status on April 15 A scheming heroine who pretends to be weak and beautiful X a compassionate-looking but actually ruthless hero Ming Shuang's father abandoned his wife and daughter and married the daughter of a powerful family. Ming Shuang handles her mother's funeral alone, then sets off for the capital to seek revenge. She uses her future marriage as a bargaining chip, willingly entering the Ming household as a pawn. When people speak of "a noble young gentleman, polished like jade," there is only one person in the capital worthy of such praise: the third young master of the Xie family, Xie Xuanjing. Every young lady waiting to be married is smitten with him. Mingzhu, the daughter Ming Hongsheng had with his powerful new wife, is especially madly in love with Xie Xuanjing. But Xie Xuanjing is pure-hearted and indifferent to romance. No one knows that after a palace banquet, the usually immaculate third young master Xie pulls an alluring woman into his arms and murmurs against her cheek, his voice hoarse: What is it you want? The woman breathes in his ear and smiles coquettishly: All I want is your true heart, my lord. What does she want? Not only will she take the man Mingzhu loves, she'll make everyone in the Ming family pay! Later, when disaster befalls the Ming family, its once-prosperous members are left wandering the streets. But the beautiful young lady Ming Shuang is nowhere to be seen. Having taken her revenge, Ming Shuang plans to leave the capital, but someone blocks her way at the city gate. The once-noble Xie Xuanjing has fallen from his pedestal. Like a demon, he looks at her with eyes almost weeping blood: Shuang Niang, where are you going? * Xie Xuanjing: I knew each time she approached me, she had an ulterior motive, yet I still willingly fell for her, trapped in this love. The lofty flower falls from the altar trope Reading guide: 1. The heroine is a scheming beauty with a wicked heart. 2. The plot and romance develop side by side. Please don't rush the story. 3. The author is reliable, updates daily, and will never abandon the novel. 4. Both leads are each other's first and only, happy ending. Coming soon: Spring's Allure. Visit the author's page to add it to your reading list. Everyone in Chang'an says Yu Yao is lucky. After Gu Chengyan, whose engagement she broke off years ago, ascends the throne, he not only spares her life but makes her empress. Only the palace maids who serve Yu Yao know what kind of hell the empress lives in. The day before the new emperor makes her empress, he abducts Yu Yao, who is already married, and forces her to look at the body on the city gate: I hear your husband is impotent? * The night before something happened to the Gu family, Gu Chengyan waited in the rain all night, but Yu Yao never came. Gu Chengyan resents her for not keeping their rendezvous that night, but can't bring himself to kill her. So he keeps her by his side and slowly torments her. Gu Chengyan doesn't know that Yu Yao had planned to meet him that night, but couldn't even get out the door. When she heard of Gu Chengyan's death, Yu Yao was heartbroken and fell ill for more than half a year. Later, Yu Yao grabs the hem of his robe with hands covered in bruises. Tears fill her eyes as she says each word: Yanlang, let me go, please... Gu Chengyan puts a dagger in her hand and guides it into his chest. Blood spilling from his mouth, he looks at her with madness in his eyes: My sweet Yu Yao, consider stabbing me once your revenge. I won't let you go. Even in death, you'll die with me. He builds Yu Yao a gilded cage, seeking to possess that one fleeting glimpse of spring. Abduction and possession + the regretful hero's pursuit of his wife Theme: Don't chase fame and fortune and forget your original purpose.