Warmth Beneath the Spring Canopy

※ Coercive romance / groveling pursuit after a breakup / collecting men

※ Soft, delicate beauty x seemingly untouchable but secretly sinister and unhinged

Wen Nuannuan is stunningly beautiful, but timid and meek by nature. One day, she saves Shi Yang, who is gravely injured.

At the time, she has no idea he is the notorious regent, infamous for his bloodthirsty, ruthless, and vicious nature.

On the day of her wedding

Shi Yang barges in, clad in blood-red robes and wearing a demon's face. He strokes Wen Nuannuan's delicate, pale neck, his eyes dark and menacing. "Didn't I tell you that you weren't allowed to marry anyone else?"

That night, on her wedding night, he torments Wen Nuannuan until her eyes are swollen from crying.

Everyone says the regent loves her to madness.

She thinks so too.

Until he coaxes her into putting on Consort Wen's robes and makes her drink the poisoned wine that was meant for Consort Wen.

Only then does she learn the truth: it was all a lie. She was nothing but a pawn, meant to die in her beloved's place.

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Shi Yang is the regent who holds all the power in the land, but there is not a shred of kindness in his heart.

At first, he takes an interest in Wen Nuannuan only to find a scapegoat to die in Consort Wen's place.

Gradually, he regrets it.

Until Wen Nuannuan accidentally drinks Consort Wen's poison and collapses before him.

Shi Yang's eyes go wide with anguish. He lifts the frail, barely breathing Wen Nuannuan in trembling arms. For the first time, he learns what it means to be consumed by grief, heartbroken to the depths of his soul.

Many years later, no one in the capital has forgotten that day. Dressed in blood-red robes and seeming possessed, the regent led a troop of palace guards into the imperial palace. Blood stained everywhere he went. They say Consort Wen, who was rumored to have been involved with him, died by his blade.

In the end, it was only the faint murmur of the woman in his arms that brought him back from hell to the world of the living.

When Wen Nuannuan wakes, she looks at him with wary confusion. "Who are you? I want my Brother Jinyu."

Shi Yang is so heartbroken that he spits out blood, falling from the human world into an even deeper hell.

A little groveling pursuit scene:

His pale, gaunt face trembles as he pleads carefully, "Nuannuan, I love you."

Wen Nuannuan stares at him in terror. "Un... Uncle..."

Shi Yang spits out blood and dies!

Shi Yang lays the finest things in the world at Wen Nuannuan's feet, asking only that she look his way a little more often.

But then he sees her holding another man's hand, smiling sweetly at him. "My lord, I'm going to marry Brother Jinyu."

Shi Yang spits out blood and dies again!

#After forcing her into a relationship, he grovels to win her back#

#She thought he was her salvation, but he turned out to be an abyss.#

Reader's Guide

1. A melodramatic, old-school romance. Happy ending, both leads are virgins, 1v1. There is rivalry between men, and both the male lead and second male lead, after turning dark, fight to possess the heroine.

2. The heroine is reborn. She's meek and submissive at first, but will change later.

3. The male lead is unhinged and not a good person. He forces the heroine into a relationship, then later becomes the perfect boyfriend and desperately pursues her.

4. Age gap: the male lead is eight years older than the heroine. He is the great-uncle of her fiance.

5. Includes coercive romance, fated love, groveling pursuit, redemption, "you are my medicine," stand-ins, and other melodramatic tropes.

Other completed novels of the same type

Reborn and Divorced from the Crown Prince

The Marquis Is No Gentleman

The Obsessive Emperor's Groveling Pursuit

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