Snatching the Luan

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In the third year of Shunzhi's reign, Grand Princess Yu'an accompanied her husband south of the Yangtze River.

At a fighting arena, she rescued a frail, gravely ill young man with delicate, handsome features.

Lian Yu was eighteen when he came to serve Grand Princess Yu'an.

She saved him from a life of misery, taught him to read and write, hired renowned tutors for him, trained him in martial arts, and taught him how to understand the world and tell right from wrong.

She was gentle, considerate, and attentive, like a sister and a mother to him. She was the person Lian Yu respected most.

And also... the one person he could never touch.

Yet Lian Yu couldn't help falling for her.

Through countless sleepless nights, his nameless, unspoken affection grew wildly beyond his control.

He thought that if he could just separate her from her husband, she would turn and look at him by her side.

Who could have guessed that Grand Princess Yu'an would be the one to request permission to marry again?

How could she smile so gently, so beautifully, and yet so cruelly, casting him aside without a second thought?

"Now that the realm is at peace, and A-Yu has grown up, everything has a happy ending," she said, blushing as she went on. "At last, I can marry the person I love."

Lian Yu's smile froze. His heart was torn to pieces, each shred burning until he went numb. She didn't notice at all.

*

The Grand Princess got her wish and married the Earl of Boqing a second time. But on their wedding night, she vanished without a trace.

A secluded estate behind high walls. A shadowy palace.

The person before her was both familiar and strange: the obedient boy who had always been at her side, the one she had raised with her own hands.

He wore a dark red robe, his cold fingertips gently tracing Yu'an's cheek.

His eyes were as bloodred as her wedding dress, a sight that struck fear into her heart. His expression was crazed, unlike anything she had ever seen.

"Why... have you never once seen me, A-Jie?"

Clearly,

he had been good enough, and had grown to look so much like the person she loved.

"As long as I can stay by A-Jie's side, any place in your life will do."

P.S.:

The female lead has had previous partners; the male lead is a virgin.

Coercive possession (aloof beauty x