Proud, pampered lady x brooding, unhinged madman
Wang Lingshu married into the Xie family, which was considered a step down for her.
At the time, the Wang family was powerful and influential, and her father had no other children. Naturally, he had to be very selective in finding her a good husband.
Xie Lin was not the most outstanding among the Xie family heirs, but she chose him anyway.
Perhaps it was because he had once helped her up.
That was all.
For Xie Lin's sake, Wang Lingshu poured her heart and soul into running his household, managing his social relations, and winning people's loyalty for him.
She did everything she could to help him.
In just seven short years, her father and brothers died one after another, and her mother's family fell into decline.
She, too, was worn down to the point of exhaustion, her life nearly at an end.
Looking back, Xie Lin was thriving.
Not yet thirty, he had already become head of the Xie family and the most powerful minister at court, with authority in his hands.
Handsome and dignified, he was admired by all.
He brought back the mistress he had kept hidden for years, along with her twin children.
It turned out she had been his childhood sweetheart. If Wang Lingshu had not come between them, they would have been married.
The mistress's resentment was directed at Wang Lingshu.
Xie Lin probably resented her too. He doted on his mistress and indulged her, pushing Wang Lingshu down into the mud, step by step.
Wang Lingshu endured it and fought back, but in the end could only take her sickly daughter and retreat to a villa.
But when the twins killed her daughter, Wang Lingshu finally went mad. She demanded to know why her father and brothers had died, why the Wang family had been punished, and why she could not demand that the twins pay with their lives for her daughter's death!
That day, Wang Lingshu set a great fire.
As the flames soared into the sky, she held the twins in her arms and hummed a nursery rhyme, as if they were her daughter.
The normally impassive Minister Xie rushed into the fire in disarray, heedless of everything.
But he could not save the person he wanted to save.
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Xie Lin loved power above all else. He was cold-blooded and ungrateful.
He married a daughter of the Wang family for his own schemes, but did not expect to become addicted to her. Even the resentment and entanglements of their past life never made him regret it.
It was fine if she did not love him. It was fine if she hated him.
But when she lived her life over again, the look she gave him was utterly calm, devoid of any emotion.
Only then did Xie Lin understand what it meant to have his heart carved out and his bones scraped clean, and to regret everything too late.
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The male lead is sexually inexperienced.
The blurb and the story contain deceptive twists.
Dark, unsettling content. Read with caution.
Here's an upcoming story, The Crane Hidden in the Deep Palace
[The male lead is not listed in the imperial genealogy, and the female lead is not of royal blood. They have neither a familial connection nor a blood relation.]
Fragile heroine x unhinged madman
SC/HE
On the day of the palace coup, Xue Xunhe's parents abandoned her and fled south.
The princess who had once been born into wealth and privilege became a palace attendant responsible for lighting lamps for the new emperor, spending each night beneath the curtains of the inner palace, her slender hands lighting incense and candles.
Everyone in the palace mocked her for falling so far from her former status. Now a prisoner, she was even more lowly and humiliating.
If she had any sense of shame, she should have taken her own life long ago.
Only Xue Xunhe knew.
That night, she held a white silk sash in her hands, and her new emperor, whom she despised, rushed into her chambers.
With his bloodstained sword, he cut through the sash inch by inch, then bent down and kissed her lips, his sharp eyes dark with churning emotion. "What do morality and shame matter?"
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When Cui Shen was young, he was abandoned in the Cold Palace because his bloodline was considered inauspicious.
Only Xue Xunhe treated him kindly, but she saw him as nothing more than a plaything, stripped of all dignity.
When she was in a good mood, she would tease him. When she was in a bad mood, she would shut him in a pitch-black box and forbid him to come out for an entire day.
She was even more willful, forcing him to do everything he hated.
Cui Shen hated her to the core.
At first, he hid her in his bedroom only so she could taste what it was like to be unable to sleep peacefully. But beneath the flowing hem of her skirt, her snow-white bare feet crossed the soft carpet, golden bells ringing at her ankles.
Before long, he was the one who could no longer sleep peacefully...
Tags:
#FakeIncest #GrovelingRedemption #EmperorStealsMinister'sWife #ForcefulPursuit
Theme: The soul needs freedom
How can I put it this way? The character Liu Rui feels like a fly. Although it is normal to be jealous of high-ranking people, it is really disgusting to pester disgusting people so relentlessly. It is a bit inexplicable. Do the heroine and Jiuniang have to face each other head-on? If you save someone once, will you be bound for the rest of your life? In the next few encounters, the attendants cannot be asked to drive away or avoid them. Is it impossible for the heroine to show negative emotions of indifference or disgust? Is it really "the whole family entrusts a carefree girl with full talents in all aspects but who knows no danger and is willing to do good and is pure and good-hearted"? It's a bit unclear. I just feel that many of the characters, including the male and female protagonists, are quite stiff and awkward. For example, every time the evil villain appears, he provokes or frames her. There is almost no effective communication between the juniors and the elders (the role of the elders is to praise the heroine's talent inwardly). Did the heroine have so many accidents that the elders didn't know and didn't take measures? It's like a child playing house, and the ability to serve and protect the master is about 0
In fact, if the male protagonist behaves like this, no matter the heroine, the people around the heroine, or even the readers will have a good impression of him, nothing he says or does will benefit the heroine.
??? How is it over? The copywriting is so good, but I feel like I've only written half of it. I'm speechless.
This male protagonist is really crazy. Can you stop being like this? It's so scary. It feels like that domestic violence drama from Mei Ting.
I finally found an article on my xp, but it was finished so hastily [Joker]
Such a good story, it's such a pity that it's unfinished
You made me laugh, is that the end??? This word "complete" made me laugh. Such a good beginning, wow. . .
The writing is simply baffling, rebirth in vain,
If Liu also has past life memories, the character image should be more fleshed out.
Is it time to update? It's been many days.