By chance, Xiao Silang, the notorious young scion of the Duke of Zhenguo's household, gets into trouble in the capital. His grandmother sends him to the family's ancestral home in Yizhou to lie low.
The local gentry host a banquet at Chunhui Garden to make connections.
Xiao Yu catches a fleeting glimpse of a stunning beauty. At eighteen, he falls in love at first sight with another man's wife and starts thinking about stealing her away.
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Shen Yingrong was born into this world, and has been married to Wu Yue for three years. They are a devoted couple, always appearing together.
At first, she thinks she can live this blissful life forever. She never expects Xiao Yu to rack his brains trying to get close to her, intent on breaking up her marriage and stealing her away.
Later, her husband Wu Yue sells her out to advance his career, sending her to Xiao Yu's bed.
Xiao Yu goes along with it, and after one passionate night, events spiral out of control.
*
Shen Yingrong gets over her lovestruck foolishness and calmly asks for a divorce. Wu Yue regrets it, though, and begs her to give their marriage another chance.
Having had a taste of her, Xiao Yu casts aside all moral scruples, steals her away, and forcibly breaks up their marriage.
Unwilling to become their prey, Shen Yingrong puts on a dazzling performance in this battle of male rivals, matching wits and fighting back.
Wu Yue launches a campaign to save his marriage. Xiao Yu shamelessly fights to take his place, while Shen Yingrong watches coldly from the sidelines.
Let them fight! The fiercer, the better!
Female lead:
#I swear I'll never bow to a forced romance, even if it kills me, but he really is offering so much!#
#From county magistrate's wife to a titled lady of the chancellor's household, I've honed my acting skills to Oscar-winning levels. Who knows what I've been through!#
#I got over my lovestruck foolishness, only to run into another lovesick fool!#
Male lead:
#I'll shamelessly throw away my principles to win my wife#
#To win my wife's heart, I went from a wastrel and unruly menace to a chancellor in the Secretariat#
#My wife is upset again today. I have to use my eight-pack abs and husbandly virtues to cheer her up#
Reader's Guide:
1. Historical fantasy setting, female lead is not a virgin, male lead is, one-on-one romance, happy ending.
2. Forced pursuit, rival men fighting over her, outrageous melodrama, and a long, painful road to winning back one's wife.
3. Gossip and spectacle, everyone loses their minds, and the story gets delightfully unhinged.
Important: The leads have no romantic feelings for each other while the marriage is still in effect.
It's an utterly familiar trope, but the three-way tug-of-war in this rivalry-filled battleground is pretty thrilling. Come watch the drama unfold!
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After transmigrating, Wei Ran is assigned Xie E, the male supporting character in a groveling-forgiveness romance, as her target.
Everyone knows that Prince Zhao, Xie E, is refined and elegant, a paragon of virtue and one of the capital's Four Young Gentlemen.
When he was young, Xie E took an arrow meant for the Emperor. The injury left him chronically ill, and from then on, he kept to himself and avoided worldly affairs.
The Emperor dotes on him, giving his younger brother the very best of everything.
The noblewomen of the capital are desperate to enter Prince Zhao's residence and win the heart of this favored son of heaven.
*
Wei Ran is one of them.
In private, she has investigated every detail of Xie E's temperament and preferences.
Whatever he likes, she learns to like too, doing all her homework.
At last, at a banquet, Wei Ran captures Xie E's attention with a Whirling Dance.
From then on, she keeps showing up in his life, racking her brains to win him over.
Then, one day, the System suddenly tells her she has been pursuing the wrong target.
Wei Ran is already worried that her reputation as a top performer will be ruined by Xie E. The aloof beauty is as chaste and desireless as a monk, and is impossible to seduce. So she happily accepts her new mission.
*
In a secret chamber, candle flames flicker.
Xie E sits on the edge of the bed. The man who is usually so gentle and proper tears away his respectable facade, stroking a delicate doll with his pale, slender hand as he smiles.
"A Ran, you have two choices: enter my household, or become my woman."
Wei Ran: "..."
Oh no, there goes my performance record!
The male lead's story:
Prince Zhao, Xie E, has a secret.
When he was young, he took an arrow meant for his elder brother, leaving him with a chronic illness. Whenever it flares up, he falls into a frenzy, which can only be soothed by bloodshed.
Then, by chance, he discovers that the Wei family's young lady, who keeps flirting with him, has a remarkable effect on him: she can calm his mind and steady his nerves.
Xie E develops improper intentions.
Who would have thought the young woman who had been showering him with attention would turn on him faster than a page could turn?
After observing her carefully, Xie E makes a brilliant move and steals the male lead away.
Male lead: Boo-hoo-hoo~~
Wei Ran: ???
System: ???
Female lead: ???
Faced with a chaotic plot that not even ten horses could drag back on track, the System gives in and tries to reason with Wei Ran.
"Host, why don't you just... make a small sacrifice?"
"What kind of sacrifice?"
"The all-around kind."
"..."
Oh no, save my virtue or save my performance record?
That's the question!
#When a drama queen meets a sanctimonious hypocrite#
#I pursued the wrong target and now I'm in trouble#
#I offer myself as a cautionary example: sisters, never provoke a yandere#
#The result is that even if you die, you still can't leave him#
[Shameless, dramatic little fox × aloof, obsessive, deceptively gentle madman]
Reader's Guide: Historical fantasy setting, both leads are virgins, one-on-one romance, happy ending.
Theme: Even in adversity, keep swimming against the current.
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The Whole Capital Is Gossiping, and I Have Three Dads
I Took the Capital by Storm with My Melodramatic Stories
Daily Life of a Rebellion With My Best Friend
Her Husband Was Reborn on the Eve of Their Divorce
A Laid-Back Life Preparing for the Imperial Exams
Help! My Reborn Husband Wants to Kill Me
After I Pursued the Wrong Obsessive Male Supporting Character
The Grand Palace Maid
My Husband Cultivates the Path of Ruthlessness
He Is a Dragon
The Evolution of a Max-Level Wife Guy
I can't refuse even if you leave me alone... Although I despise the love brain, but if there is a love brain who falls in love with me and plans everything for me, then...
Hahahahaha indeed, he was so generous. But this will never happen with an old man and a fat pig! But if he is a handsome and happy puppy, then she should consider it anyway. It is much better than her ex-husband who is rigid in bed and boring and feels sorry for himself every day. You must think things through in life. Living comfortably is better than anything else.
The idea is actually very good, but the author's writing is neither good nor bad, and it feels like a running account, which makes people have no desire to read further.
He gave too much
I'm going to vomit blood. Weren't the previous heroines quite decisive and independent? Why are we being casually impressed here and planning to rely on men? Really a mouthful of old blood...
I like this kind of male and female protagonists who know what they want and are sober in the world.
It's understandable, I really can't refuse.
This book is not as brilliant as any previous one. The plot and characters feel relatively flat, like boiled water with a little sugar added, and the taste is relatively bland...
How can I put it... The emotional scene is quite weak. I feel that what I see from the title and copywriting are different from what I actually see. The details of solving the marriage dilemma are clearly written and the logic is normal, but it is too detailed and it is a bit confusing. The emotional part of the male and female protagonists is just brushed aside. To this day, I still feel that the male protagonist is not the same. The main character's feelings are incomprehensible, while the heroine's emotions are completely devoid of the tension in an ambiguous relationship. It's all out of profit considerations. Rather than writing about romance, the whole article is more about writing about anti-feudal, anti-arranged marriage, and anti-secular themes. It doesn't seem to have much romantic tension, but more like portraying a group of characters and raising an anti-feudal banner.
It's indeed too much, hahahahaha