Pray for Your Peace

The neighboring novel, Bright Moon Shines Forever, is complete! [Radiant, fallen noblewoman × dark and obsessive crown prince] #The childhood friend I used to bully became the crown prince and came back to seize me

[Early work, read with caution]

Blurb:

Ning Xiaoyun transmigrates into an unofficial history and is forced to marry Xue Lingqi, Marquis of Dingyuan, to bring him good luck.

Her husband, bedridden with a lingering illness, was once a God of War who struck terror into the enemy. Now he is a cripple, and his temperament has grown increasingly volatile.

To put his hostility at ease, Ning Xiaoyun tries every trick she can think of to placate the sickly man.

Who knew that as she kept soothing him, the marquis, who was supposed to die young, would gradually recover, and the way he looked at her would grow more and more unsettling.

Ning Xiaoyun: ...I can't endure this miserable life for another day. I'm running away.

Xue Lingqi made a name for himself at a young age, proud and arrogant. Even after sweeping through the borderlands and taking control of the army, he remained alone, with nothing to tie him down.

When the imperial decree arranging his marriage arrived, everyone in the capital sighed. The noble-born Marquis of Dingyuan was marrying an insignificant country girl.

Back then, no one would have dared imagine that the unruly Marquis of Dingyuan would one day kneel for hours before the palace, begging the emperor for mercy in the freezing rain, and asking him to clear that girl's name.

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Xue Lingqi never forgot that when he felt suffocated, the delicate young girl stayed by his side and offered him a ray of light.

Just as he resolved to protect her and keep her safe for the rest of her life, she left without a word.

He sat alone on the daybed by the window all night, laughing almost madly. So, from beginning to end, he was the only one who had taken it seriously.

Oh... That daybed was where the young girl used to sleep.

That day, Xue Lingqi had just fought his way back from the battlefield when he heard that Ning Xiaoyun was marrying again.

Seated high on his horse, he stopped the bridal sedan in the middle of the street and lifted her veil with his spear.

“Have you forgotten something, Yun'er?” His eyes turned sinister, and a smile suddenly appeared.

Xue Lingqi's icy fingertips caressed her snow-white cheek, and blood trickled between his fingers onto her soft lips.

His eyes bloodshot, he laughed hoarsely. “You promised to share my bed in life and be buried with me in death. How can you go back on your word?”

Delicate but resilient beauty × obsessive marquis who dotes on his wife

Bonus Scene

Xue Lingqi wandered into a farmhouse and saw a woman in plain clothes and a hairpin teasing a little child beside her.

The exquisitely pretty child saw him and looked up to ask, “Mother, this man looks just like me. Could he be my father?”

The beauty he had yearned for day and night hesitated for a moment. “Have you considered that he might be your long-lost older brother?”

Xue Lingqi clenched his teeth: ...Very well. She's gotten even bolder.

Content warnings:

Both leads have no prior partners, one-on-one romance, happy ending.

Marriage first, love later; he pursues her later on.

The romance develops slowly.

Entirely fictional setting, not intended to be historically accurate.

Theme: Even in desperate circumstances, fight to change your fate