Everyone says that the noble young lady Pei Shaosi is beautiful and kind, a fair and delicate beauty like a white lotus.
Only the boy she brought home and forced to raise knows how guileless her smile is and how venomous her heart is.
He refused to leave the wolf pack, so she had the entire pack slaughtered and cut off the alpha wolf's head.
He refused to leave his wolf mother, so she sent people to skin his wolf brothers, making the mother wolf flee in fear of her own accord.
He refused to learn how to behave like a human, so she alternately fed and starved him, provoking his hatred while leaving him powerless to fight back.
With her alone, Gu Yucheng, who knew nothing about humanity, learned a profound lesson all by himself:
The more beautiful a woman is, the more dangerous she is. The prettier she looks, the more ruthless she is.
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Pei Shaosi had a dream.
She dreamed that she had offended the new emperor's son, who had been raised among commoners, and that the person he loved was the very person she had ground into the dirt.
Together, they destroyed her family, cut her off from her loved ones, and left her to be abused by beggars until she died.
When Pei Shaosi woke up, she smiled faintly.
She found the cub who was still being raised by a mother wolf, no matter the cost.
Then she humiliated him, bullied him, and abused him.
She made him wish he were dead, trapped in a whirlwind of love and hate, with every emotion under her control.
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As the most gifted prince, Gu Yucheng was brilliant and magnanimous, his character as clear as the moon and bright as the wind.
The court trusted him, and the emperor favored him. He was the natural choice for the throne, to reclaim lost territory, expand the empire, create a celebrated story of ruler and subject, and accomplish a great deed for generations to come.
The world saw only his brilliance and assumed that ever since he was brought back, he had turned his fortunes around and everything had gone his way.
But no one knew...
Whether his eyes were open or shut, in dreams or in reality,
all he saw was Guanyin.
A few things to note:
*A ruthless woman with a kindly face and a merciless heart x a puppy who is utterly wrapped around her finger. Both are each other's first and only love.
*An inverted forced-capture-and-coercion romance, with the woman pursuing the man. The female lead is in control, and her actions have logical motives.
*An alternate world of power struggles between noble families and the imperial court, with some domestic scheming over power.
*Blurb screenshot dated 2021.12.23
Premise: Love is eternal