After My Engagement Was Broken Off, I Became the Heir's Wife

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[Upcoming novel 1] The Substitute Concubine Ran Away

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Blurb:

[Soft, amnesiac beauty like a little white rabbit x cunning, overbearing older foster brother like a big bad wolf]

Lu Jiayuan, the adopted daughter of Duke Dingguo, had a face as lovely as a hibiscus and was one of the most beautiful women in the capital. Suitors came one after another, but not a single match worked out.

Some said she brought bad luck to her husbands, and anyone who came to ask for her hand would suffer some kind of misfortune, big or small.

Others said she was too proud and thought no one was good enough for her.

Lu Jiayuan knew nothing of this. She only knew that every marriage arrangement fell through. With no prospect of getting married, she quietly went to talk to her parents.

But she never expected to find her foster brother kneeling before them.

Her father clutched a whip, furious: "You're happy that your sister can't get married, aren't you? Did you have someone stop that young master from the Grand Commandant's family today?"

Her foster brother gave a cold laugh. "I did."

Her mother tried to reason with him: "You won't let this one marry, or that one. What is your sister supposed to do?"

He looked up. "Then she won't marry. I can afford to support her."

Her father brought the whip down. "This is ridiculous!"

Lu Jiayuan was startled too, but then her foster brother suddenly looked up at her, the corner of his mouth curling into a smile. He said each word slowly: "She can marry no one but me."

[Little Scene]

One day after they were married, A Yuan went shopping and bought two sugar paintings. She handed them to Lu Xun. "Brother... I mean, husband, have some candy."

Lu Xun glanced at the candy in her hand, then at her vivid red lips. His gaze darkened.

He bent down and bit her lips. "So sweet..."

Content warnings:

1. Both leads are each other's first and only partner; a sweet historical romance

(The blurb was screenshotted and registered on 2022.03.03. Please don't copy it.)

Blurb for The Substitute Concubine Ran Away:

[Moody, chaste prince x soft, languid, peerlessly beautiful concubine]

Zhao Rongruo was stunningly beautiful, but she lost her parents at a young age and had to live under someone else's roof.

Her future mother-in-law despised her, a scheming young cousin interfered, and her fiancé treated her with indifference.

Being forced to take that cousin's place and marry Prince Duan as a concubine left Zhao Rongruo with no choice.

But Xiao Yunchi had no idea what she had been through. He thought she was a woman who coveted power and willingly debased herself, and treated her terribly.

On their first night as husband and wife, he got drunk and slept with her, but called out the cousin's name.

Later, he made her clean and sweep, treated her like a lowly dancing girl, and ordered her to perform for the powerful... Zhao Rongruo swallowed every hardship.

But one day, Xiao Yunchi finally discovered the secret behind her marriage to him, as well as the cousin's true face.

Only then did he realize that her meekness and humility toward him, and the deep love in her eyes, had all been an act.

She had only pretended so he would lower his guard, giving her a chance to leave him.

Prince Duan Xiao Yunchi disliked women and was decisive and ruthless, yet he had passed the age of twenty and still hadn't taken a wife.

What others didn't know was that someone already occupied his heart, leaving no room for anyone else. He had searched for her for years, and one day happened to see the jade pendant he had given her.

But she was low-born. He had planned to give her the status of a favored concubine for now, then make her his princess once the time was right.

Instead, Zhao Rongruo foolishly took the place of the woman in his heart and became his concubine.

He humiliated her again and again to vent his anger, only to finally discover that the woman he had longed for all along, both in the past and the present, was her...

He realized the truth, but it was too late.

Zhao Rongruo ran away in the middle of the night without looking back.

He finally caught up with her, only to see her pull out her hairpin and hold it to her throat. "Xiao Yunchi, please just let me go, all right?"

Seeing the blood on her neck, he swallowed the bitterness in his throat, his heart aching as if it had been cut by a knife. "All right."

But later, she turned around and decided to marry someone else.

On the day of her engagement, he went to see her.

She looked at him coldly. "He knows I was once a concubine, but he doesn't care. He respects me and loves me..."

He offered her the jade pendant he had given her, begging her to change her mind, but she was unmoved and smashed it.

The once high and mighty Prince Duan now knelt before her on the broken jade. "A Ruo, what will it take for you to forgive me..."

Notes:

1. Classic melodramatic angst

2. The heroine is mistreated early on; later, the hero chases after his wife and tries to win her back

3. The hero gets his comeuppance on a regular basis

4. Both leads are each other's first and only partner

5. Set in an alternate history; no need to fact-check

(The blurb was screenshotted and registered on 2021.11.21. Please don't copy it.)

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