Draw Your Wife into Your Embrace

(Scheming big bad wolf × kind little white rabbit)

(Arranged marriage to love)

The day Yin Wan caught the man she loved having an affair with her close friend, she ran off in tears and stumbled straight into the arms of Prince Wei Heng, who was leaving Lanxin Hall to head to his fiefdom.

Consort Lan happened to witness the scene. Worried that no one would look after her son, she immediately asked the emperor to arrange a marriage.

Yin Wan had no choice but to accept.

The two did not get along after the wedding. After all, he had no feelings for her, and she had none for him.

Realizing she would spend the rest of her life suffocating in the prince's residence, Yin Wan began thinking about going to the frontier to find her father and brothers.

After much consideration, she took their divorce papers to Wei Heng and asked him to sign them.

But she hadn't expected Wei Heng to fall ill. He was groggy and feverish, looking utterly pitiful.

Yin Wan had always been softhearted. How could she leave him behind without a second thought? She immediately put away the divorce papers and stayed to care for him, planning to leave once he had fully recovered.

She never imagined that in taking care of him, she would end up giving herself to him as well.

At first, Wei Heng truly paid no attention to his princess and never cared about her.

Being sent to his fiefdom had already left him deeply depressed, and then he fell ill. He had no mind for romance.

He thought that if she asked to leave, he would simply let her go.

But he never expected that the young woman would not only stay, but find all sorts of ways to encourage him, learn to make him all kinds of food, and tell him how her father and brothers were bringing glory to their country on the battlefield.

Little by little, Wei Heng found his spirits again, and someone had found a place in the softest part of his heart.

But just as he decided to treat her properly, the young woman gazed at him with bright, shining eyes and firmly asked to leave.

Wei Heng's heart broke at once. How could he possibly agree?

So he pretended to be sick and coaxed her: "I'm not fully recovered yet. Take care of me until I am, and then I'll let you go."

Yin Wan could only agree, thinking she just had to care for him until he got better.

Who knew he would keep pretending to be ill the whole time, and do everything he could to flirt with her until she could no longer resist?

In the end, she lost her heart and became pregnant, leaving her unable to go even if she wanted to.

@A clarification: The heroine only wanted a divorce because she didn't know divorce wasn't allowed. With no elders around to advise her, she never ended up divorcing him.

@Fictional setting

@Arranged marriage to love, from no love to deep love

@Drafted 2023.2.1

Upcoming novel 1: "A Misguided Flirtation"

Scheming powerful official vs. silly beauty

Xue Zhi noticed that an important official from the capital was staying in the west wing of their residence. He often wore a crimson official robe and discussed affairs with her father in the study.

She had never left Yanzhou and was fascinated by the capital, so she kept hanging around the study, hoping to get close to him.

But the man always seemed stern and unsmiling. Afraid he would chew her out if she approached him directly, she pestered her father until he told her what the man liked.

When she learned he liked wolf-hair brushes, she searched all over the market for one, but he rejected every one she offered.

Xue Zhi came out of the study looking dejected, wondering what kind of thing could possibly win him over.

At last, the man told her that only a fresh wolf-hair brush was to his liking, so Xue Zhi gathered her courage and took her servants into the mountains to hunt a wolf.

Wei Chong, the aloof Vice Minister of Revenue who kept women at arm's length, was ordered to go to Yanzhou to provide disaster relief. While there, he stayed at the home of Xue, a low-ranking county magistrate.

He was busy with official business every day and never had a moment's peace, but some clueless little thing kept bothering him.

Every time she came by, she brought a stack of brushes and asked if he liked them. He was so fed up that he decided to scare her off by mentioning wolves.

But he never expected the little thing to actually go after one. She was still away from home late into the night.

When Magistrate Xue asked him to help find her, he immediately took his guards and began searching. They found her on a narrow, pitch-black path.

She was a complete mess, covered in white fur from head to toe.

The moment she saw him, she ran over and pulled out the things she had tucked into her skirt to show him. "My lord, my lord, the fresh wolf-hair brushes are here!"

Looking at the bloody fur, Wei Chong's heart, hard as iron, softened all at once.

Thinking that she liked him, he decided he might as well accept her feelings.

But he hadn't expected that just as he made up his mind to accept her, she would disappear.

She had stirred up such longing in him, yet he couldn't find her anywhere.

So he sneaked into her room at night to demand an explanation, only to find her squatting on the floor, playing with a kitten and paying no attention to him at all.

He pulled her to her feet and said through gritted teeth, "You flirt with me and then run off. You've got some nerve."

Xue Zhi was baffled. "My lord, when did I ever flirt with you? I was only trying to appeal to your interests and ask you about life in the capital."

Wei Chong's eyebrows shot up in anger. He pulled her into his arms and said fiercely, "You deliberately hid your real intentions when you approached me. You're guilty and must be punished."

Xue Zhi was stunned. "What kind of punishment?"

Wei Chong bent down and bit her earlobe, abandoning his usual upright demeanor. "I'll punish you by making you marry me."

Upcoming novel 2: "A Web of Longing"

Sweet-faced nobleman, sweet and gentle girl

Jiang Siruo had a lovely, peach-blossom face and was a rare beauty. Sadly, her fortune was nowhere near as good as her looks. Life in the Jiang family was like walking on thin ice, and then, after she married into another family, her husband died before they had even completed the wedding ceremony.

Mockery and insults soon rang out everywhere, and the Jiang family even accused her of being a jinx.

She was afraid, afraid of falling into hell and never climbing back out, so she decided to cast aside her shame and risk everything.

The Pei family had lost their eldest son, but they still had the second son. Now that she had entered the Pei residence, she had no intention of leaving.

The Pei family's second son, Pei Qingran, was handsome and refined, graceful in every gesture. Everyone praised him as a perfect gentleman.

But they had no idea what kind of black-hearted man was hiding beneath that flawless exterior.

The day he accompanied his elder brother to welcome his new sister-in-law into the family in his previous life, he had already harbored an unspeakable desire.

Unfortunately, he had been too bound by propriety back then to save Jiang Siruo when she threw herself into the lake. This time, he would use every means at his disposal to make her completely his.

During the days she deliberately tried to get close to the second son of the Pei family, Jiang Siruo increasingly felt that something was strange. Why was everything going so much more smoothly than she had imagined? Was her charm really enough to shake everything?

Only later did she learn that it wasn't because she was so capable. He had set the trap long ago and was just waiting for her to walk into it.

He had even been the one to urge her to choose someone else!

Theme: Practice is the sole criterion for testing truth.