A Beloved Maid's Escape

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[Blackened ice-cold beauty x gentle little rabbit, coercive romance]

Shen Yiyi has almond-shaped eyes, rosy cheeks, and a slender figure. The Princess of Qi wants to send her to the Prince of Qi's heir as a bedchamber maid, intending to use her to seduce him.

The heir is powerful and noble, with the bearing of an immortal, like snow on a high peak, untouched by the world. Unfortunately, he is cold, taciturn, and uninterested in women.

He never gives her deliberate attempts at seduction a second glance, and often scolds and warns her.

Shen Yiyi has no intention of currying favor with the powerful. She puts on an act to placate the Princess of Qi, hoping only to save enough money to buy back her freedom and leave the manor as soon as possible.

Until one day, when she is bullied by the betrothed of the manor's Third Young Master, she panics and accidentally stumbles into the courtyard where the heir is resting.

In desperation, Yiyi kneels and clutches the heir's robe, weeping like a pear blossom in the rain as she begs him to save her.

But the heir's usually cold gaze lingers on her lovely face for a long while. He says with amusement, "I'm no good person. You'll regret this one day."

Yiyi is too desperate to survive to understand the deeper meaning in his eyes. Delighted, she kowtows to thank him.

As long as the heir will save her, she would gladly work like an ox or a horse for him for the rest of her life!

After becoming the heir's maid as she wished, no one dares bully Shen Yiyi again. Yiyi decides that although the heir seems cold as ice, he is actually a gentleman.

She serves him attentively to repay him for saving her life, while saving money to buy back her contract and hoping to return home and reunite with her family.

But gradually, she realizes the heir's gaze is becoming stranger and stranger, and her attempts to buy back her freedom are thwarted again and again. At last, she belatedly senses that something is wrong...

Late one night, she nervously hands her contract to the heir.

Instead, he tears up her contract and finally drops his disguise.

He drives the terrified girl step by step into a dead end, stroking her pale, delicate face as he smiles with gentle cruelty.

"Yiyi, I told you long ago that I'm no good person."

"Since you refuse to appreciate what's good for you, I don't have to keep pretending."

The heir, now showing his true colors, is like a completely different person, and Yiyi finds him harder and harder to endure.

At last, she finally finds a chance to escape.

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In the dim room after the turmoil subsides, Wei Xuan's expression is vicious and terrifying. He uses ruthless methods to force her to eat and take medicine, no longer the elegant, refined gentleman he once seemed to be.

She refuses to yield, swearing at him, crying and making a scene.

A guard presents her with a lacquered box.

When it is opened, a man's head, covered in blood and gore, lies inside. Yiyi stares at her hands, stained with blood, her little face deathly pale.

The man stands silently behind her and speaks by her ear, gentle yet cold: "A gift for you, Yiyi."

Her vision suddenly goes dark, and she collapses silently into Wei Xuan's arms.

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"Are you going to run again?" he asks with a smile.

"N-no, I wouldn't dare."

She stiffens in his arms, trembling and shrinking away, secretly gritting her teeth as she answers.

Warnings: This is a coercive romance, not a wish-fulfillment story. Don't read if you can't handle a frustrating plot or a weak heroine.

*Stop criticizing him. Her cousin is a good person. He did not sell the heroine!!!

*The male lead is an aloof beauty on the surface, but he's a mad dog who plays dirty.

*The two had a misunderstanding in their previous life. The male lead wasn't deliberately cruel.

*Coercive romance, old-school melodrama. Proceed with caution if that's not your thing.

*The heroine was not a virgin in her previous life. The male lead was a virgin in both his previous and current lives.

Left on December 4, 2021.

-- Blurbs for upcoming stories below

Bewitching the Lord

The legitimate elder sister married into the Duke of Wei's household, but after three years without children, she fell ill from sorrow.

A Ying, born to a concubine, is meek and obedient. She enters the household with her legitimate sisters to care for her elder sister.

Her elder sister is kind and gentle, and persuades A Ying to become her husband's concubine so the sisters can share him, promising her a generous reward.

For her younger brother's future, A Ying grits her teeth and agrees.

Who could have known that the fruit wine her elder sister gives her that night would leave her collapsed on the bed, delirious and burning all over?

In a daze, she sees her tall, handsome brother-in-law standing by the bed with his hands behind his back, watching her with a cold, mocking expression as he raises a hand and lets the curtains fall.

That night, A Ying has a dream.

In the dream, her kind-faced but malicious elder sister sends her own younger sister into her husband's bed. The Duke of Wei, the youngest powerful official in Great Zhou, is to use her as a surrogate. Tricked and coerced by her elder sister, A Ying agrees to bear the duke's firstborn son so her sister can secure her place in his favor.

Several months later, she really does become pregnant. After ten months of pregnancy, she gives birth. Her elder sister holds the baby boy and finally reveals her vicious nature, bribing the midwife to kill A Ying on the birthing bed.

Poor A Ying doesn't even get to see her unborn child. Before she dies, she learns that her own birth mother was killed by her elder sister and stepmother. She dies with her bloodshot almond eyes wide open.

She suddenly wakes from the dream. Everything that should not have happened has already happened. Seeing the mature, handsome man asleep beside her, A Ying turns deathly pale.

Unwilling to die without knowing why, she watches the man dress and prepare to leave. Gritting her teeth, she hooks her soft, boneless hand into his sash.

"Brother-in-law..."

Her voice is hoarse and soft as she sobs like a pear blossom in the rain. "P-please don't go. A Ying is scared."

Later, her elder sister drinks poison and dies, and her stepmother's crimes are exposed to the world. Now the Duchess of Wei, A Ying soothes her newborn daughter, then her son.

Her husband stands alone beneath the windows, watching the happy mother and children, and sighs softly. "A Ying, are you going to make me leave again tonight?"

Di Brother

Qi Ning is blessed with skin as smooth as ice and jade and a bewitching beauty, but as an outsider brought into the Xie family by a mistress, she has never been loved.

Her stepmother is kind-faced but cold-hearted, and after her father's death, she often treats Qi Ning harshly.

One day, the eldest brother, Xie Chengzhou, returns victorious from the battlefield, and the entire household celebrates.

Xie Chengzhou has always detested Qi Ning, ever since she was little, and has never been kind to her. Qi Ning knows this all too well and treads even more carefully.

But the eldest brother strictly observes propriety and keeps himself in check. In the eyes of outsiders, he is a perfect gentleman.

That was what Qi Ning used to believe, too.

Until that night, when she kneels before her eldest brother, eyes red, and begs him:

"Brother, please save him. I'll do anything."

Unexpectedly, her eldest brother abandons his usual propriety. He lifts her chin and asks with a quiet laugh, "Anything?"

Meeting his dark, possessive gaze, Qi Ning turns deathly pale in an instant.

Theme: Love is built on mutual respect and trust