Bound Pet

[Delicate beauty x obsessive official]

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Story blurb:

Shen Jue, the high-ranking commander of the Censorate, was powerful and aloof. Someone seeking to curry favor with him found a beauty and sent her to him.

When Shen Jue first saw Ming Xi, the young woman was bound from head to toe and trembling with fear. He disliked using force and was about to let her go, but when he noticed the beauty mark at the corner of her eye, he changed his mind and kept her at another residence.

He showed Ming Xi a little kindness, and she repaid him tenfold. When he was injured, she cried until her face was streaked with tears. Everyone hoped he'd die. She was the first person who had ever feared he might. He thought, I'll just keep her here.

Ming Xi was a concubine-born daughter who had been neglected since childhood. When she was sent away like an object, she thought she was going to die. But the man didn't touch her and instead took good care of her. Then she overheard Shen Jue speaking to someone outside his study and learned that she was merely a substitute for the eldest Miss Lin, and that she was expected to step aside.

But Shen Jue refused to let her go. He forced her into a wedding dress. On their wedding day, dressed in red with a jade belt, his peerlessly handsome face wore a cold smile as he gripped Ming Xi's chin and forced her to look at him. "Lu Xingjian can't save you. From now on, you can only smile for me, cry for me, and keep only me in your heart."

Later, Shen Jue's enemies kidnapped Ming Xi and Lin Zhiyao and asked him, "Commander Shen, which one will you save?"

Shen Jue's face was cold as frost. Remembering that Lin Zhiyao had once saved his life, he said coldly, "Let Miss Lin go."

Ming Xi looked up at Shen Jue. Their eyes met, and she smiled brightly. "I don't owe you anything anymore."

With that, she suddenly threw herself backward, taking the person holding her over the cliff with her.

Commander Shen went mad. What drove him even madder was learning that the person who had saved him all those years ago was not Lin Zhiyao, but Ming Xi.

Reading guide:

[Highlights]: The trigger warnings are all in the blurb. The male lead doesn't have an idealized first love; he only loves the female lead. If this isn't your cup of tea, please move on instead of commenting. Thank you~

1. Classic melodrama. The female lead survives, and the male lead has to win her back.

2. A false substitute, possessive love.

3. The male lead likes the female lead simply because he likes her, not because she saved his life. His kindness to the other woman isn't because he likes her, either. When forced to choose, he isn't giving up the female lead.

Coming soon: The Chief Minister's Beloved. Please add it to your favorites~

Blurb one:

Song Yunxu, the all-powerful chief minister of the grand council, is ruthless and bloodthirsty, cold and sinister. Everyone reveres and fears him.

Once, a woman tried to climb into the chief minister's bed. The next day, she was carried out beneath a white cloth.

From then on, everyone knew that the chief minister had no interest in women.

The day Shen Ningxi was betrothed to Song Yunxu, the entire Duke's estate was heavy with gloom. Everyone said that if Shen Ningxi married Song Yunxu, she wouldn't live long.

Shen Ningxi feared the chief minister's methods too, but she dared not defy the imperial decree, lest her family be implicated.

On their wedding day, she nervously waited for Song Yunxu to lift her veil. His hand, adorned with Buddhist prayer beads, reached toward her and then stopped. She heard him say, "If you don't want this, I'll let you go home. I'll bear all the consequences."

She took his hand and called him, "Husband."

With that one touch, Song Yunxu knew he could never let her go.

Every day after the wedding, Shen Ningxi thought it would be her last. But she discovered that Song Yunxu was nothing like the rumors said.

Blurb two:

Everyone said Song Yunxu was born to a noble station. No one knew that before rising to prominence, he had been merely a concubine-born son in the household, whose mother had died tragically. A Daoist had said he was born under an ill star.

He was driven out of the household, injured and soaked by the rain. Huddled in a corner, he thought he was about to die.

Shen Ningxi draped her cloak over him, gave him food and money, and told him, "You have to stay alive."

He survived. Through every hard day that followed, he thought about those words.

She is the bright moon in the heavens, the only person he wants to protect.

Theme: Repaying kindness