The Marquis's Daily Pursuit of His Wife

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--Story blurb-- [The bonus chapters have been updated through Chapter 118]

The Jiang family were modest merchants. Seeking to trade on a past favor, they flaunted the token of the late Marquis of Weiyuan and demanded that the current Marquis of Weiyuan marry their daughter, Jiang Hanyin.

The Marquis of Weiyuan, Song Mingyue, was young and accomplished, and kept away from women. It was said he already had someone in his heart. So the elders of the marquis's household came up with a compromise: they would adopt Jiang Hanyin as their goddaughter and promised to find her a good husband.

From then on, Jiang Hanyin stayed in the marquis's household as its Fourth Young Lady.

To avoid suspicion, she deliberately kept her distance from her adoptive brother and tried not to be alone with him.

Fortunately, the elders of the household were kind and treated her as their own, sincerely seeking a good match for her.

Later, Jiang Hanyin happened to meet a young man with sharp brows, bright eyes, and a handsome face. He was every bit as good-natured as he was good-looking.

When the young man came to propose, everyone in the household agreed it was a good match.

Only her adoptive brother set down his teacup with a cold expression and said, "They are not of equal social standing."

The people of the marquis's household exchanged glances, and the marriage proposal was dropped.

Jiang Hanyin thought her adoptive brother detested her, so she avoided him like a mouse fleeing a cat, wishing she could burrow into the ground.

But the vast Marquis of Weiyuan's residence seemed to have shrunk to a tiny space. Wherever she went to hide, her adoptive brother was there.

Jiang Hanyin gritted her teeth and used praying for the Old Madam as an excuse to spend a year or two at a temple.

But the moment she entered the prayer hall, her adoptive brother trapped her inside.

She was frightened and helpless, but saw the helplessness on his face as he asked plaintively, "When will you finally look at me properly?"

[The restrained, secretly passionate man X the beautiful young woman who can't read the signs]

[Reader's Guide]

1. They are each other's only one.

2. Slow burn.

3. Human nature is complex. There are both male and female antagonists, as the plot requires.

4. Everything in the plot serves the male and female leads.

5. Fictional setting.

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Lin Youxuan was born to a concubine branch of the Lin family and was bullied from a young age.

Lu Shaoyuan passed the imperial exams with top honors in all three stages at the age of twenty. The youngest top scholar of the dynasty, he nonetheless fell for this lowborn young woman. He not only helped free her from the Lin family's control, but was determined to marry her, leaving countless people stunned.

On the day they pledged themselves to each other, Lu Shaoyuan eagerly offered her his jade pendant.

Lin Youxuan took it shyly. The moment her fingertips touched it, memories of her previous life suddenly flooded back.

Her expression changed drastically. The next moment, she threw the pendant in Lu Shaoyuan's face. "Does deceiving an innocent young woman make you feel especially accomplished, Chief Minister Lu?"

Where was he when she was mistreated in the Lu household in her previous life?

And where was he when she was gravely ill?

Since his heart belonged only to the world, then he could spend this life with the world!

Lu Shaoyuan was a master strategist with power over all under heaven, yet he had once been flustered and helpless only in front of Lin Youxuan.

Once was when, in her previous life, she sent him a divorce letter and cut all ties with him.

The other time was when she turned away from him now.

PS: A regret-and-redemption romance, with a broken relationship mended.

Theme: True love exists in this world, and good and evil are repaid in kind