The Substitute Bride Ran Away

Upcoming novels: Hoping He Finds His Way Back, Caught in His Web After Reaching Too High

#Revenge arc #Coercive love

On her wedding night, Ning Yan was so drunk that her mind was a haze.

The man before her was handsome and imposing. He held her face and kissed her.

It was not until she woke up the next morning that she learned he was not her husband at all.

Everyone thought Shen Ji was a refined gentleman, graceful and elegant. Only Ning Yan knew the evil lurking beneath his handsome facade.

His possessiveness and need to control her were horrifying. He tormented her day after day, turning her into a plaything for his own desires.

"I want to lock you up so you can't go anywhere."

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Shen Ji cared nothing for moral principles. He had only one thought: Ning Yan could belong to no one but him.

Later, even after she was his, he still wasn't satisfied.

Having her only made him crave more. But the closer he got, the harder it was to control himself.

Upcoming novel: Hoping He Finds His Way Back

After years of studying, Shen Shiqing finally made it into the top three in the imperial examinations as a man. She had long been prepared to give up love and live as a man for the rest of her life if it meant she could overturn the case against her family.

The court was tangled in rival factions, and the situation changed in an instant. With her sensitive identity, Shen Shiqing was always walking on thin ice, for one wrong step could cost her life.

At court, Shen Shiqing was always completely focused. Her colleagues joked that she stood there like a child being punished, but she had her reasons and could not explain them.

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Shen Shiqing felt she had nearly developed ears sharp enough to hear for miles. She could identify who was coming just by the sound of their footsteps.

"Lord Shen, the Chancellor requests your presence at his residence."

Shen Shiqing had no idea why the powerful Chancellor, who held sway over the entire court, had taken such an interest in a nobody like her. Every time they met, she was as tense as a drawn bowstring, terrified of saying a single wrong thing and bringing death upon herself.

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Shen Shiqing always remembered her family's instructions: overturning the case was important, but staying alive mattered more. And one last thing: never get entangled in a romantic affair.

She had only laughed when she heard that. Though she had dressed as a man for years, she wasn't truly one, so why would she go after a woman?

But a disastrous romance came knocking on its own, just as she had hoped, and it wasn't with a woman.

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Shen Shiqing clutched her belt, so flustered she could barely speak. "Chancellor, how can a man and a man..."

"Try it and find out."

Caught in His Web After Reaching Too High

Meng Mingzhu lost both her parents when she was young, becoming an orphan with no one to rely on. To protect herself, she had to use every means at her disposal, while pretending to be innocent and carefree in public.

When she first met her cousin Xue Yan, the man everyone talked about, Meng Mingzhu was dazzled by him too. But she knew well that Xue Yan was not someone she could afford to provoke.

As Meng Mingzhu approached the age for marriage, she began making plans for her future early. After careful thought, she settled on a target.

Strangely, men who had originally been very interested in her would suddenly change their attitude and avoid her at all costs whenever she came up.

She had no choice but to select someone else, but the same thing happened time and time again.

Xue Yan's coldness toward Meng Mingzhu was subtle. In front of others, he was always polite, but Meng Mingzhu was perceptive and had already noticed his dislike of her.

Since she was living under another's roof and could not win Xue Yan's affection, she could only try to avoid seeing him as much as possible.

Xue Yan was a graceful gentleman, admired by outsiders for his noble character. But around her alone, he lost all his manners. No matter how she tried to keep her distance, she still could not avoid him.

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It was only when Xue Yan pinned her beneath him and kissed her again and again that Meng Mingzhu finally understood.

Everything that had happened was Xue Yan's doing. He had wanted to keep her by his side, where she could never escape his grasp.

"Wasn't this what you wanted when you seduced me?"

"I took the bait."

A cousin who appears noble and gracious but is actually devious and dark × a beautiful cousin who pretends to be innocent but is actually very calculating

Message: Be strong and persevere when facing adversity.