The Young Marquis's Beloved

The Wen family of Jinling has gained a legitimate daughter.

She is the only daughter of the Third Master, who died young, and was kidnapped years ago.

The wild girl from the countryside becomes the object of everyone's ridicule in the household. They mock her for coveting wealth and status.

Later, the Prince of Zhenbei's household remembers an old engagement and decides to marry a Wen daughter.

The country girl Wen Liu becomes the stand-in bride. In a bewildering turn of events, she gets into the bridal sedan and marries the infamous young marquis.

On their wedding day, he leaves in a hurry as soon as the ceremony is over. They don't see each other again for a month.

Then, at the Wen matriarch's seventieth birthday banquet, Wen Liu attends alone and endures everyone's scorn.

The young marquis appears like a Bodhisattva descending from heaven to save the day, only to stand up for her and keep her from being wronged.

"We are newlyweds. It hardly seems appropriate for Little Liu to become someone else's concubine."

From then on, the moon beneath the sea is the moon in the sky, and the person before you is the one in your heart.

Wen Liu thinks: I'm so lucky to have married someone this handsome, who has neither wife nor concubine.

Gu Huaian holds Wen Liu close and thinks: Little Liu is so slender, with such thin arms and legs. She really can't take too much roughhousing.

A simple, straightforward sweetheart who gets awkward now and then, and a clever young marquis who heals her as she heals his prickly heart. Just a sweet, doting slice of everyday life.

[Reading Guide]

1. Substitute-bride trope, delicate beauty X clever young marquis

2. The heroine is gentle but not timid; the hero is rough around the edges, but patient and protective of his own

3. No angst, all sweetness. 1v1, both leads' first partners, HE

[Ongoing novel: The Noble Concubine, please add it to your collection QAQ]

At sixteen, Yu Qing's father died.

Yu Qing knelt before his coffin for three days without rising. Then she was thrown out of her home and went from a wealthy young lady to a beggar on the street.

On a snowy night in Bianjing, Yu Qing huddled on the street with only a dog for company. She knew her end was near, but someone blocked the moonlight and held up a lantern to illuminate a corner of the darkness.

They lived together in one room, neither asking where the other came from or how old they were. When spring arrived, Yu Qing learned that the person beside her was the son of Duke Jin.

"For saving my life that day, I, Yu Qing, would gladly give myself to you in return."

"Then move to another courtyard. It's a better place."

"All right."

Later, people said that the second young master of Duke Jin's household was engaged to the chancellor's daughter. Others said a princess had taken an interest in him, and he was about to marry...

Yu Qing stayed in a small courtyard, watching Su Youci appear every other day without asking or bringing anything up, content to be his secret mistress.

Yu Qing wanted revenge. Before long, the General of the Expeditionary Campaign's household would collapse after being charged with insubordination and colluding with enemy forces.

Later, Su Youci repaid her deep kindness by marrying his secret mistress. The Protectorate gained a new general's wife.

Su Youci: "Everyone in the world says you aren't worthy of me. Only I know you'd fight to the death for me, just so I could live."

Yu Qing: "...General, you've misunderstood. That was a necessary measure."

Su Youci: "I don't care. You favor me. You love only me."

Yu Qing: "Yes. I love only you."

A stubborn, adorable heiress fallen on hard times X A ruthless, talkative young master who loves to act cute

Theme: Keep loving life in difficult times and create value through hard work