Folding Pear Blossoms

When Ruo Li was seven, her parents died, and she was adopted by the Duke of Ying. But the duke's wife never took a liking to her.

Then, when Ruo Li was fourteen, the lady betrothed her to her son and heir.

Pei Yuzhou loathed this sudden marriage arrangement. He misunderstood Ruo Li, spoke cruelly to her, and tried every possible way to force her to break off the engagement.

He even forbade her from calling him "Brother" anymore.

On the day of the hunt, Ruo Li was sabotaged and nearly died in a tiger's jaws. She lost her sight as a result.

Pei Yuzhou was beaten until his skin was torn and his flesh mangled, yet he kept his eyes on the little girl huddled in a corner, her gaze vacant.

He thought that if there was truly no hope for her, then he would let the matter of breaking off the engagement rest.

He would protect her for the rest of his life.

The day Ruo Li regained her sight, she searched the whole village, but couldn't find the boy who had promised to be the first person she saw.

Not long afterward, she heard from someone else that he had gone to war.

After his father was killed in battle, Pei Yuzhou inherited the title and went to the border. He was gone for three years.

But when he returned victorious, he discovered his fiancee was gone. Worse, she was acting intimately with another man.

Furious, Pei Yuzhou snatched her back and threatened to kill Ruo Li if she didn't obey him.

But later, the servants of the ducal residence often saw their duke trailing after his wife, taking one faltering step at a time, cursing himself as a bastard and not daring to lay a finger on her.

Sweet, timid damsel × Arrogant noble heir

Content warnings:

1. Both leads are sexually inexperienced; happy ending; three-year age gap; no blood relation.

2. The male lead belongs to the female lead in body and heart. He initially rebels against his parents' wishes and behaves like a jerk, but later gets his face-slapping, falls hard, and spends the rest of his life making amends.

3. The female lead is weak and cries easily. Her main roles are to be beautiful and be doted on. Her early circumstances are frustrating, so please stop reading if that's not for you.

4. Set in an alternate world. Not for readers who insist on historical accuracy.

5. Please discuss the characters rationally and refrain from personal attacks. No need to announce your departure.

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Bo Qing is Prince Jingyang's only beloved daughter. She and her cousin grew up together and fell in love.

Not long after their families arranged their marriage, the powerful Regent returned from the battlefield.

His iron cavalry swept across the land, and it seemed the skies over Jinzhou darkened.

On the night of the Qixi Festival, Bo Qing met her cousin, and amid the well-wishes, they wrote down their wishes.

Just as they were about to set their lantern afloat together, a strikingly handsome man in black robes and a golden crown walked up the steps.

He was alone, but his commanding presence made the frightened townspeople retreat.

"It's time to come back."

Yan Zong regarded Bo Qing without expression, his bearing noble and imposing, leaving no room for defiance.

Later, amid red wedding silks, the most beautiful songbird in the world was held firmly in the man's palm.

As he listened to her cries, his rough fingertips lingered at the corners of her eyes.

"Qingqing, if you look at him once, I'll cripple him once."

Beneath his gentle voice lay chilling cruelty and possessiveness.

In the final years of Changqing, Emperor Yanshuo deposed his nephew and pacified the realm, ascending the throne with the people's support.

Not long afterward, he traveled incognito on a tour of the south. As he walked down Jinzhou's main street, he suddenly barged into an embroidery shop before anyone could react and seized a woman holding a child.

His eyes reddened as he called her "Qingqing" in a hoarse voice.

She answered with a resounding slap.

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When the border erupted into chaos, Tang Wan was separated from her family and fell into enemy hands.

With the men in the military camp eyeing her hungrily, she had no choice but to pin her hopes on the enemy commander, Shen Nanling, heir to the Marquis of Pingyang and a young god of war.

At last, one night, tearful Tang Wan summoned her courage and reached out with trembling, pale hands to touch the man's icy sash...

When the war ended, Shen Nanling personally caught Tang Wan as she tried to escape and brought her back.

That night, she cried until her voice was hoarse, but couldn't win the slightest tenderness from him.

After they returned to his residence, Shen Nanling visited her courtyard every night, but gave her no title.

He was cold and inscrutable, and Tang Wan was afraid of him. But she had no one to rely on in the Tang kingdom, and he was all she had.

She tremulously tried to please him and saved up money and valuables, never giving up on the thought of escaping home.

But before she could put her plan into action, Shen Nanling raised an army in rebellion.

Tang Wan was captured before an army of thousands.

He was too far away for her to make out his expression, but she could see the cold arrow slowly being raised.

Before he could release it, Tang Wan closed her eyes and resolutely thrust her neck against the enemy's sword.

Shen Nanling, don't save me in my next life.

In the third year of Yongshuo, Emperor Qi Yuan, a tyrant who knew only war and kept his harem empty, passed through a small city and seized a beautiful young woman right off the street.

Ignoring his court officials' protests, he personally presented her with a phoenix crown.

But the young woman knocked it from his hands and trampled it into pieces.

The tyrant's expression darkened. To everyone's horror, he dropped to one knee and gently brushed a few flecks of gold leaf from her embroidered shoe.

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