Addicted to Being Cherished

Sheng Nianxi, daughter of the Sheng family of Suzhou, was born with otherworldly beauty. Yet one strange misfortune after another destroyed every marriage arranged for her, and by the age of sixteen she was still unmarried.

Rumors that she brought bad luck to her husbands spread far and wide. Taking pity on her daughter, Madam Sheng sent her to live with her elder brother, an official in the capital, to clear her mind.

After Sheng Nianxi moved into the Fu residence, her extraordinary beauty soon caught the attention of the capital's young noblemen, and one suitor after another came to ask for her hand.

But before long, each of them found one excuse or another to abandon the idea of marrying her.

As time passed, Sheng Nianxi began to sense something was wrong.

Determined to find out, the next time a suitor came who was set on marrying her, she didn't hesitate to take him back to Suzhou and have her parents arrange the wedding.

As she was about to leave for Suzhou, her cousin's husband, Fu Junyao, kindly offered to escort her.

When she opened her eyes again, she was waking up in a country villa.

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Sheng Nianxi pushed open the door to escape, only to see the man's tall, shadowy figure advancing toward her.

Fu Junyao stroked her tenderly and murmured, his voice full of yearning, "Xier, you know I've never wanted you to call me brother-in-law."

He had coveted her for years, ever since they were young. He didn't believe she could be unaware of it.

As the memories of the past fell into place, she asked him, humiliated and furious, "When are you going to let me go?"

He leaned close to her cheek and sighed, almost entranced. "Let you go, only to watch you marry another man and call someone else your husband?"

Once, he had clearly hated her so much.

He hated her arrogance, and hated even more that she had never once looked at him that way.

But on his wedding night, when he lifted the red veil and saw that the face beneath it wasn't the one in his mind, he knew he had gone completely mad.

If he wanted her this badly, he would take her. Better that than let his obsession torment him and keep him awake at night.

[Content Warnings]

* A spoiled, arrogant beauty × a haughty, noble young lord

* Both leads are sexually inexperienced; childhood sweethearts. The male lead's marriage to the female lead's cousin is fake.

* The male lead falls hard for the heroine he once despised, then forcibly takes her because he can't have her any other way.

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