I Became a Rich Man's Mistress

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Yin Jiayue was born beautiful. In her previous life, that beauty was precisely why Gong Zimo sought her hand in marriage. After they wed, she was forced to take the brunt of calamities meant for the woman he loved, and eventually died a horrible death.

Reborn, she swore she would stay far away from Gong Zimo! But as soon as she returned to the capital, the notorious playboy Jin Yuqi inexplicably abducted her and made her his mistress.

As the man approached step by step, his gaze intensely predatory, she panicked, tears welling in the corners of her eyes.

Jin Yuqi was a notorious playboy in the capital. He did as he pleased and had offended countless people. But his status was so exalted that no one dared cross him. He had abducted the woman in the street without giving it much thought. She was just a shield to take the arrows for him. Yet somehow, he began to care about her.

Once he sensed his own feelings, Jin Yuqi decided to give her a proper title and marry her. He thought that with a formal status, she would stop constantly trying to get away from him.

But before he could tell Yin Jiayue, she fell off a cliff and vanished without a trace.

The moment Jin Yuqi heard the news from his servant, he crushed the armrest of the chair beneath his hand.

Later, Jin Yuqi accidentally discovered that the princess the new emperor had just found was Yin Jiayue. But she had lost all her memories.

He was overjoyed, but before he could ask for her hand, a man named Gong Zimo appeared, claiming that he and Yin Jiayue had been in love and promised themselves to each other before she lost her memory. And Yin Jiayue actually believed him!

The sight of them walking away together pierced his heart.

After losing her memory, Yin Jiayue had a noble status, a loving father, and a handsome fiance. Her life was peaceful and happy enough, except that she always felt there was something strange about the way the new prime minister Jin, who had inherited his father's position, looked at her.

She never expected that at a banquet, she would find herself unable to move, trapped in this man's arms as he kissed her. Her fiance was just behind a screen. She was frantic, but the man was nothing like the cold and heartless figure he showed the world. He simply buried his face in the crook of her neck and softly called her name.

A frail, sweet, universally adored beauty heroine x a hero who is a playboy on the surface but deep and calculating within

* Dramatic, forceful pursuit, plus an amnesia plot. The hero, Jin Yuqi, is a fake playboy. The heroine and the second male lead are both reborn. The hero and second male lead will both have to suffer to win her back.

* Both the previous life and this one are monogamous.

Upcoming novel: After the Substitute Marriage, the Aloof Buddhist Prince Comes Calling

General Yi has two daughters. His legitimate daughter is exceptionally clever and talented, with both beauty and brains. His concubine-born daughter, Yi Manling, is a stunning beauty, but timid and meek.

The general and his wife were childhood sweethearts and deeply devoted to one another. His concubine-born daughter was conceived with a maid while he was drunk, and he paid her little attention.

The legitimate daughter was about to marry when her fiance was killed in battle. Unable to get out of the engagement, she turned her attention to Yi Manling and decided to have her take her place as the bride. Yi Manling was timid and easily intimidated, so even though she was unwilling, she could only agree in tears.

Unexpectedly, not long after Yi Manling married, her fiance returned safe and sound!

For over a year of marriage, her husband and the legitimate daughter often appeared together, acting so intimately they seemed like a married couple.

Yi Manling watched from the sidelines, her heart unmoved. She had always been meek and compliant.

That was until she met Mu Hun, the Ninth Prince, who had only just left the monastery. He was handsome and otherworldly, his features radiating compassion, a string of sandalwood prayer beads in his hand. He was sacred and pure.

He saw through her timid exterior and stirred up the malice and resentment buried deepest in her heart.

He told her to fight for what she wanted. It didn't matter if she was cruel or bullied the weak: he would take responsibility for it all.

Yi Manling had thought Mu Hun must have a heart of gold. When she was forced to seek his help, she went to him with tears in her eyes, looking delicate and miserable.

The Buddhist prince Mu Hun sat on a high platform, his white robes flowing, his face strikingly handsome. His jade-like fingers rolled the prayer beads, and his dark eyes, black as lacquer, lowered to look at her.

"After you divorce, stay by my side."

Yi Manling suddenly looked up and met a pair of deep, wolfish eyes.

His former lover's situation was a complete mess. Jia Hongxuan suddenly remembered that he had been married for over a year to his wife, Yi Manling, who was gentle and sweet.

That night, he went to her room. Separated by a screen, his wife said she was feeling unwell and feared she might infect him.

She lay in bed, her voice trembling and choked with tears, still thinking wholeheartedly of him. Jia Hongxuan felt even more guilty and resolved to treat her well from then on.

But as he turned and left, he failed to see Yi Manling lying in bed behind the screen, her clothes half undone as someone held her in his arms, red marks like plum blossoms dotting her shoulder.

The Ninth Prince, Mu Hun, was born wicked, with a gloomy disposition and an unpredictable temper. The world had disliked him from the day he was born. After his mother died, he was framed and sent to a monastery. On his return to the capital to seek revenge, he met a little turtle.

The little turtle spent all day curled up in her shell, letting others trample her, looking like a complete coward.

But he sensed the resentment hidden deep inside her. He drew her in and took control of her, coaxing her to poke her head out of her shell, bare her sharp teeth, and bite to pieces everyone who tried to bully her.

Mu Hun was quite taken with the little turtle. He felt he wouldn't mind spending the rest of his life with her.

But one day, the little turtle ran away, carrying his child.

One-on-one romance. The heroine has been with no one else, while the hero has. The hero has to suffer to win her back. He's a bad man, very twisted. The heroine is weak at first, but will stand on her own later! Her weak phase only lasts for the first few chapters.

Completed novel: The Possessive Eunuch's Beloved Dowager Empress

Theme: Even in adversity, you must strive to make yourself stronger!