The Madam Is Cunning

[A fresh idea, posting a preorder, revised 2026.5.17]

On his way to take up his new post, Duan Yingchuan was kidnapped by bandits and taken into the mountains, where he met a young woman.

She was gentle and kind, beautiful and softhearted.

Though she was terrified, she stubbornly refused to shed a single tear.

When his subordinates found them, he saved everyone, including her.

On their journey back, the young woman took an arrow meant for him.

Later, she accompanied him through another stretch of days filled with danger.

Duan Yingchuan loved her and wanted to marry her.

But the Duan family was a century-old clan, and they would never allow a girl with no family or connections to enter their household.

Duan Yingchuan planned to defy his family, no matter the cost.

Before their engagement was settled, he was drugged and, in a daze, took advantage of her.

When he awoke, the young woman had vanished.

Later, in a deep mountain gorge, she stood across a rushing river and coldly told him that her name was not Yun Ying.

Her name was Meng Jingque, the only daughter of the leader of Xiping Mountain Stronghold. She had drugged him that night.

[Madam Is the Craftiest Fish in the River]

Theme: Never give up