The Wife I Took In Keeps Trying to Run Away

Blurb One:

Lanyue was an orphan whom the heir of the Marquis of Dingbei brought back from the battlefield. With a beauty that could take anyone's breath away, she had the heir coming back to her day after day.

Though the marquise made things difficult for her, Lanyue never complained, thanks to the heir's affection and protection.

Who could have guessed that his affection was so shallow? In the end, he still had to marry a lady of equal standing as his principal wife.

Late one night, the heir held Lanyue close and murmured tenderly, "The future marchioness is virtuous and gracious. If you behave yourself from now on, she may well tolerate you."

Lanyue smiled and agreed, as docile and gentle as ever.

But on the day of the heir's wedding, she turned around and set fire to the room where she lived.

The heir, still dressed in his wedding clothes, searched through the ashes until his hands were bloody and mangled. At last, he found a corpse burned beyond recognition.

Blurb Two:

Xue Jingyi, heir to the Marquis of Dingbei, was dignified and proper, and held himself to the highest standards. The emperor himself had praised him in vermilion as a model gentleman.

Yet this rule-abiding young lord was so bewitched by a mere orphan that he disregarded his family's dignity and insisted on keeping her by his side.

The marquise had beaten and scolded him, but the heir remained obstinate, refusing to sell off his concubine.

With no other choice, the marquise began arranging her son's marriage, hoping his future wife could rein in the concubine's arrogance.

But who could have imagined that, before the heir even exchanged wedding bows, the concubine would perish in a sea of flames?

From then on, the heir seemed to go mad, calling the concubine's name as he wept tears of blood night after night.

On the battlefield, Lanyue took one look at the handsome heir of the Marquis of Dingbei and set out to infiltrate his circle to gather intelligence.

Once the crisis in Fengzhou was resolved, she seized an opportunity to leave, but the heir kept intercepting her by accident.

Fortunately, he was about to marry. Lanyue hardened her heart, set fire to her quarters, and made her escape by faking her death.

Years later, Lanyue, now a junzhu, attended a banquet with her young son and ran into Xue Jingyi, the Marquis of Dingbei, now a powerful figure at court.

The gray-haired marquis asked her with red-rimmed eyes, "Why were you so cruel as to leave me back then?"

Lanyue adjusted the peony in her hair. "It was just a fleeting affair, my lord. Why take it seriously?"

Later, after Xue Jingyi became the new emperor, he locked Lanyue away in the imperial palace.

The new emperor knelt before the bed and put shoes on his beauty. "If you dare run away again, I'll break your legs and keep you locked by my side for the rest of your life!"

Theme: It's never too late to see the error of your ways