A Lush Spring Night

Childhood friends / Marriage before love / Reunion after a long separation / The husband pursues his wife to win her back / Coercive love / Devoted male lead / Happy ending / Scum-free / Rivalry among men later on

[Cold-hearted, stunning beauty × Beautiful, strong, yet tragic young general] Comments enabled

As a child, Yan Huinan was spoiled, domineering, and incompetent. But his father was the Marquis of Dingbei, renowned throughout the land, and his mother was a princess. Born into a life of wealth and privilege, he was the quintessential pampered young master. No one dared cross Yan Huinan, whose influence outshone even the princes.

But everyone knew that the person no one in the capital should ever offend was Xie Yun. Yan Huinan cherished her above all else, and the little tyrant would have gladly given her his very heart.

Yet this was the same man who would cause an uproar throughout the city if Xie Yun so much as got a tiny scratch. The Xie family destroyed his home and family, forcing him to take up a blade and plunge into a mountain of corpses and seas of blood, where he slew his old enemy and took revenge.

Years later, Xie Yun meets Yan Huinan again. He has become a cold, merciless young general with a string of battle honors. She, meanwhile, is fleeing an arranged marriage, pursued by her husband's family.

In the night rain, Yan Huinan sits on his horse at a distance. He lifts her chin with his icy spear, its blade slicing her delicate skin as scarlet blood trickles down Xie Yun's neck.

Yan Huinan sneers, his eyes full of mockery. "So, we meet again, old acquaintance."

Xie Yun knows that if she falls into Yan Huinan's hands, she'll die horribly. After all, he hates her to the core.

But later, Yan Huinan not only spares her life, he marries her and makes her his principal wife. He restores her to the most honored position and gives her dignity, but refuses to give her love.

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It isn't until Xie Yun sees the marriage contract the two of them wrote as children that she understands. She had casually signed it just to get Yan Huinan off her back, but he had carefully kept it alongside the belongings of his late mother. The paper is creased, and she can't begin to guess how many times he has turned it over and touched it...

Xie Yun asks him, "Yan Huinan, are you just born to be mistreated?"

Yan Huinan stubbornly replies, "Whatever you say I am, that's what I'll be."

[Reading guide]

1. A devoted male lead whose mouth is harder than iron, but who's a sucker for the female lead. Both leads are virgins. This is a marriage-before-love and husband-pursues-wife story from the female lead's perspective, but behind the scenes, the male lead is madly in love, crawling around in the dark with longing. That's about it. [The author calmly sips tea.]

2. He will definitely have to chase her and win her back. There'll be rivalry among men later on! The later rivalry is going to be delicious! Hehe, writing the outline for the reconciliation arc was so satisfying. Just wait, everyone, and let me tell you the story!

[Blurb screenshot saved on 2024-04-09]

The next novel in the author's profile: After the Crown Princess Is Coveted by a Deranged Powerful Minister. Blurb:

Minister steals the emperor's wife / Coercive love

Gloomy, deranged powerful minister × Proud, clever crown princess

Liu Shimin loses her memory by chance while fleeing an arranged marriage, and is rescued by Guan Liushen. Beautiful and dazzling, she was raised in luxury. Even after losing her memory, she keeps the airs of a pampered young lady, often giving Guan Liushen a hard time and ordering him to do this and that.

"Guan Liushen, I want that rabbit. Go catch it for me."

"Guan Liushen, I'm hungry... Is there any meat?"

"Guan Liushen..."

Guan Liushen is a scholar, cool and unhurried in temperament but honest and kind. Whatever Liu Shimin asks of him, he obliges. When he's about to leave for the capital to take the imperial examinations, Liu Shimin gives him all her money.

She smiles brightly. "Guan Liushen, hurry and pass the exams. I'll be waiting for you at home."

Unable to hold back his feelings, Guan Liushen crosses the line for the first time and embraces her. "All right. When I come back, let's get married."

Liu Shimin nods in agreement.

But after passing the highest imperial examination, Guan Liushen receives a letter from his mother saying that Liu Shimin has disappeared.

Then, while the procession celebrating the new top scorer riding through the streets meets the retinue escorting the newly appointed crown princess to the palace to give thanks, isn't Liu Shimin sitting in the carriage?

Guan Liushen dismounts and breaks through the layers of guards to stop the imperial procession, only to be held back by soldiers and forced to the ground.

All he asks is, "Didn't you promise to wait for me at home...?"

Liu Shimin suppresses the urge stirring in her heart, her nails digging into her palm.

She replies, "The new top scorer must have mistaken me for someone else."

When they meet again, she is a crown princess whose family has fallen into ruin and who is constrained at every turn. He is the meritorious and distinguished Minister of the Secretariat and Crown Prince's tutor.

Everyone says Minister Guan diligently fulfills his duty to tutor the crown prince. But they don't know that, in a hidden corner of the Eastern Palace, this upright minister of the court holds the crown princess captive in his arms and kisses her shoulder. His gaze is dark and sinister. "Your Highness has a poor memory. Allow me to remind you: whenever you drift into your dreams, you cry in my arms and lose yourself in our passion."

Theme: Love can overcome any obstacle.