The Beauty's Ordeal

(Originally titled Bound in Sweetness)

Young Master Pei goes out without checking the almanac. He happens upon a woman drowning and kindly rescues her, only for her to cling to him with both arms and legs, insisting on repaying him by marrying him.

After getting her wish and marrying Pei Zhiyan, Ji Yang realizes that her cold and aloof husband is so different from the man he was in her previous life.

"Husband, my waist hurts." Ji Yang arches her slender waist, waiting for him to sweep her into his arms.

Pei Zhiyan only glances at her. "Sit properly."

Ji Yang can't figure out what went wrong.

Until at the palace banquet, one "Cousin" is enough to tear through Pei Zhiyan's disguise of cool elegance.

At night, he gently strokes Ji Yang's sleeping face, his eyes dark and ominous. "Do you want to betray me for him again?"

"I can't bring myself to hurt you, but let's see whether I'll spare him."

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Pei Zhiyan still remembers the agony of having his heart torn out and bleeding in his previous life. He thought of countless ways to punish Ji Yang, and even considered becoming strangers to her forever.

But when they met again, he finally understood. Since he couldn't give her up, he would keep her by his side for the rest of her life and make her love him.

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P.S.:

The setting is very much an alternate world.

Both the male and female leads are reborn. Their previous life was full of melodramatic misunderstandings.

The male lead becomes violently obsessive later on, very seriously so.

Please add my upcoming story, Feeding on a Jade Waist, to your collection.

Gu Xueyan has a past she can't bear to remember. Clinging to a faint hope, she waits calmly for her wedding. But a great fire breaks out just before the ceremony, turning a joyous occasion into a funeral.

Xie Ce enters the mourning hall and comforts his grief-stricken elder brother. "The dead cannot come back to life."

While the Gu family is making funeral arrangements for Gu Xueyan, in a villa on the outskirts of town, the "dead" Gu Xueyan weeps like pearls falling from her eyes and begs Xie Ce in despair. "Please, I'm begging you. Let me go."

Xie Ce binds Xueyan's hands and kisses away her tears one by one. "Didn't I tell you that you couldn't marry him?" His voice is achingly tender as he murmurs, "Let you go? Dream on."

Xie Ce has coveted the woman his elder brother loves for a long time. Unable to win her over, he has no choice but to take her by force.

#A restrained, ascetic statesman falls hard#An obsessive, delicate beauty#

Theme: When love runs deep, even stone can be moved.