Tangled Kite

◎ Coming soon: A dual-personality male lead, the aloof older brother who is like a flower on a high peak / the crazy puppy younger brother. Please add it to your favorites.

-The beautiful, calculating commandery princess who plays hard to get & her cousin, the cold and obsessive heir who hides a dark side-

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Yan Mingge has been spoiled and willful since childhood. If she takes a fancy to something, she will find a way to get it.

The same goes for people.

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She has coveted her cousin, the refined and aloof heir to the Ningxi Marquis's household, for a long time.

After falling from grace, Yan Mingge uses a little trickery and goes from the lofty Minghui Commandery Princess to a distant cousin living in the Ningxi Marquis's household.

She insists on wearing his old clothes and living in his courtyard, but in front of his grandmother she acts meek and respectful, and whenever she sees him, she hides.

Yet this delicate cousin risks her life when they encounter danger together, leaping forward without hesitation and leaving him the chance to survive.

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Even his close friend teases him at a banquet: "Just cousins? The way she looks at you is anything but innocent."

Lu Yun's heart, frozen solid, slowly melts, and ripples spread across its spring waters.

Who could have known that he would hear her laughing as she chatted with someone: "I'm not greedy. His person and his heart, either one will do. Having both would just be a burden."

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Thinking of the times she had stolen kisses from him and the way her eyes lingered, Lu Yun gives a silent, self-deprecating laugh. So his heart was just an unnecessary burden.

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Just as her beloved cousin is about to walk right into her trap, Yan Mingge is sent away by him to live in the Biehan Courtyard.

Knowing that Lu Yun is completely fed up with her, Yan Mingge doesn't get upset. Instead, she turns her attention to the newly arrived cousin from the Li family, elegant, talented, and modest. She catches his hawk-like gaze, glinting with icy hostility.

That night, delicate sobs and springtime sighs drift from Yan Mingge's Biehan Courtyard.

After that, he comes and goes from Biehan Courtyard day and night. The marquise soon senses something is amiss and is the first to arrange Yan Mingge's marriage to her cousin from the Li family. Lu Yun remains composed, turns around, agrees to marry into the Ruan family, and arranges for both weddings to take place on the same day.

On the wedding day, Yan Mingge's attempt to elope fails, and she stumbles, dazed, into the bridal chamber. Someone lifts her veil, and the first thing she sees is Lu Tingyuan's unusually fiery gaze. His expression hazy, he twirls a lock of her hair, then forcefully kisses her lips. In a husky voice, filled with tenderness, he says, "A Yuan, you can only marry me."

Reader's Guide: 1. The heroine makes the first move but doesn't want to take responsibility. She's basically the ancient version of a player who says, "Why flirt if you don't intend to marry?"

2. The cousin from the Li family and the girl from the Ruan family are not throwaway characters. Neither has feelings for the leads, and they are a couple whose love grows after marriage.

Here's a childhood-friends fluffy romance coming soon~

▼ The gentle, radiant young lady of a noble family & a prince with two personalities who can go crazy ▲

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It takes Yu Yaoyue five years of marriage to discover that Gu Lin has a childhood sweetheart tucked away in his heart, someone he treasures above all else.

No wonder there has been so little intimacy between husband and wife these past few years. They have ended up respecting each other like "ice."

Yu Yaoyue doesn't want to deceive herself, so she decides to step aside and let the other woman take her place. But when she hands him the divorce papers, he falls silent, then finally says coldly, "So you really do still love him!"

Hearing the hurt in his clear, warm voice, Yu Yaoyue stares at him in shock. In broad daylight, he pulls her into his arms, grinning wickedly. His breath falls hot against her neck and shoulder as he says, "Sister Yue, leave him and marry me."

From then on, Gu Lin, once proper and stern, never cracking a smile, spends every day finding new ways to please her. Every so often, he comes out with something shocking: "You're keeping me company tonight. Won't your husband get jealous?"

Before Yu Yaoyue can answer, he buries his face against her chest and mumbles, "Sister Yue, you'd better not tell me. I can't bear to hear it!"

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The divorce is put on hold for the time being, and Yu Yaoyue gradually gets used to her sweet-talking, clingy young husband, who is always eager to be intimate with her.

The scales in her heart slowly tip toward her young husband, and her eyes fill with tender affection whenever she looks at him.

But then her young husband disappears, and the proper, cold husband from before returns.

Yu Yaoyue can't stand it. Just as she's about to speak frankly with him about getting a divorce, her beloved young husband appears again.

The young husband clings to her, asking for comfort and a hug. Yu Yaoyue kisses his shoulder again and again, never noticing the icy glint in Gu Lin's eyes.

Gu Lin is bitter with jealousy. He thinks that he may as well be a villain for once. Even if he has to coax and deceive her, he will make sure that her body and heart belong to him alone.

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First drafted on 2022.07.28

Theme: Love should be between equals