The Merchant's Daughter

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Gu Yangyang was born into a merchant family. Though low in status, she was exceptionally beautiful and widely renowned for her looks. She should have married into a wealthy, powerful family. But after her parents died suddenly and her uncle and sister-in-law pressured her, she had no choice but to adopt her cousin and keep the family afloat.

Gu Yangyang thought she would never marry in this life. All she needed to do was raise her cousin well, find him a wife, and help him start a family. She would fend off her uncle and sister-in-law and preserve the family business her parents had left behind.

When she grew old, she would find a dilapidated temple to shelter in and spend the rest of her days beside a lonely lamp and a green-burning candle.

But who could have guessed that the cousin she adopted, seemingly refined and harmless, was actually a wolf cub with fangs?

She gave him everything and taught him with all her heart, finally managing to secure the Gu family's business. Just as she was preparing to step away after accomplishing her task, he cornered her in the bridal sedan, making her feed the wolf with her own body. "Sister, why can't I?"

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Gu Zhonglin was the son of the late Crown Prince. After his uncle ascended the throne, his parents were executed for defying him. He concealed his identity and hid within the Gu family, all to find his imperial grandfather's final edict.

By a twist of fate, the merchant family's daughter treated him like a treasure and carefully raised him.

Gu Zhonglin had planned that once he reclaimed the realm and avenged his father, he would offer her the whole world as her bride price, so her boundless love would not have been in vain.

But who could have guessed that when he returned in glory, he would find red candles hung outside the Gu home, and the merchant's daughter who cherished him like a treasure was about to marry someone else?!

Whoever she wants to marry, I'll take her away!

Highlights:

1. A sweet 1v1 story with two virginal leads. The male lead is a sweet-on-the-outside, dark-on-the-inside schemer who works hard to win her over.

2. The male lead has another identity, and the leads are not biological siblings.

3. Set in a fictional world, even emptier than the author's wallet!

Coming next: Marriage by Transfer and Remarrying in the 1970s: My Ex's Neighbor. Click the author's page in the upper right to bookmark! Completed works: Stealing the Bride and Voice Like Honey.

Lin Yaotiao had a secret after marrying into the Xu family in the village.

In her dreams, her husband left on a business trip and never came back. So his mother, not wanting the bride price to go to waste, promised her to her elder brother-in-law, who had just left the army.

Her brother-in-law was burly and muscular, with a scar running across the left side of his face. He looked like someone you didn't want to mess with.

Lin Yaotiao recalled how that man tormented her in her dreams, and the crimson dreams beneath the spring curtains. Her legs went weak and her waist ached, and she fled back to her parents' home in a panic.

But that night, the imposing man cornered her against the wall and scoffed, "Why are you running? It's not like I'm going to eat you."

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Xu Chong never considered himself a man of high moral character. In ten years in the army, he'd done every kind of disgraceful thing.

He had thought that after helping the new ruler ascend the throne, he could retire to a quiet life in the countryside. But when he saw his young, lovely sister-in-law, as delicate as a white flower, he found himself developing feelings for her.

He had thought that when his younger brother disappeared, she was destined to belong to him. But after one night together, she ran away?

She thinks she can get away!

Remarrying in the 1970s: My Ex's Neighbor

Lin Mingzhu brought her two daughters to the city to find her husband, a former sent-down youth, only to catch him kissing a woman from the same residential compound.

After decisively divorcing him, she was preparing to settle down in Shencheng when she discovered that the city was strictly checking travel permits. With no household registration or identity papers, she was about to be forced to take her two daughters back to their hometown to farm.

Lin Mingzhu looked at her two daughters, who didn't want to leave, then at her ex-husband, who was about to marry his new wife. Gritting her teeth, she married the ex's neighbor, a reeducation-through-labor convict who had spent three years in prison for reselling goods from the factory.

Everyone thought Lin Mingzhu would be beaten to death by that man, and that her two daughters would be thrown out onto the street.

Even her ex-husband and his new wife waited outside her home every day to watch her make a fool of herself.

But later, the ex-convict became the richest man in the country and pampered Lin Mingzhu endlessly. He even spoiled her two daughters like little princesses.

Her ex-husband watched his daughters call another man Dad every day, and regretted it so much he could have torn out his own guts!

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You Jiang was a notorious rogue and impoverished layabout. He had spent three years in prison for reselling goods.

After getting out, he had no family except for his elderly grandmother.

He thought his record as a convict condemned him to a lonely life, but he never expected Lin Mingzhu to give him a home.

Theme: Love can overcome countless hardships.