Green Waist

Also known as: Forced to Love the Former Enemy Who Gave Me a Love Curse | Law Before Love

With the imperial court in turmoil and her maternal grandfather imprisoned, Shu Hengyu went overnight from a dazzling noblewoman admired by all to someone anyone could bully.

Her stepmother intended to marry her off to a notorious playboy in the capital, and arranged a lavish flower-viewing party for the occasion.

The hall was filled with powerful nobles, but Shu Hengyu's gaze went straight to Lu Xuanji, whose bearing was beyond compare.

He was like a clear gleam of snow, elegant and dignified, completely out of place amid the noisy gathering.

In full view of everyone, she bent the slender waist she had once been proud of and gracefully stumbled into his arms.

Lu Xuanji's brows lifted slightly. His formerly indifferent gaze suddenly turned intriguing.

Shu Hengyu wrapped her arms around the man's lean waist, her beautiful eyes brimming with tears.

They barely knew one another, and their long-standing grudge was no secret.

If she hadn't been set up and poisoned by a love potion, she would never have willingly gone near him.

But danger was all around her, and she had no choice. She parted her red lips and whispered by his ear, “Lu Xuanji...”

“Truthfully, I've loved you for a long time.”

*

At his younger brother's request, Lu Xuanji saved a woman.

She had beauty and little else: spoiled, willful, and completely without decorum.

Their casual acquaintance had always displeased him.

Their night together had been solely to save her life.

Later, their entanglement in bed was merely to break the love curse.

He was the descendant of a renowned minister, upright and impeccable, and burdened with high expectations. How could he be swept away by love and let his heart waver for the daughter of a disgraced official who had always opposed him?

Had she tricked him?

Ridiculous.

*

On the day Shu Hengyu heard that Lu Xuanji was to be betrothed, her plan was complete. She shed a couple of insincere tears and intended to flee that very night.

Instead, she ran straight into the man lurking in the shadows, his face dark with anger...

Shadows shifted in the secret chamber.

Lu Xuanji's figure blocked most of the candlelight as he looked down at Shu Hengyu's damp, slender neck.

Just as he had long wanted to do, he locked his long fingers around her slim waist and twined a strand of her hair around his fingertip.

“Where are you going tonight, A Yu? Running away with Lu Shuyuan? Don't forget, I'm the older brother he trusts most. If I want something, all he can do is hand it over.”

His voice was husky. His usually composed features were charged with menace, and his eyes held a startlingly sick, obsessive look.

“A Yu, you were the one who approached me first when we were young, and later you were the one who came to me for help. You are not leaving me.”

Once he had a taste, he gradually descended into madness.

Theme: Love life and strive for the best