Forced to Marry

My next book will be either High School Teacher Becomes My Blind Date or Marrying the Crown Prince. The blurbs are at the very bottom. Please add them to your reading list!

[Synopsis] The daughter of the Zhao family of the Wu'an Marquis household went husband-hunting among the new graduates and set her sights on the newly appointed top scholar, who was already engaged. To help his younger sister get what she wanted, the young Marquis Zhao forcibly married Li Zhaozhao, who was engaged to Song Yi.

Forced into marriage, Li Zhaozhao faced a husband who treated her as if she didn't exist after the wedding, kept flirting with other women, and hadn't changed his womanizing ways. She felt neither sadness nor joy, treating it as a marriage in which she was already a widow.

Then one day, Li Zhaozhao noticed that her husband's gaze had changed, and so had his attitude...

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After Zhao Song forcibly married Li Zhaozhao, the woman who had stood in the way of his younger sister's marriage, he treated her like an unwanted garment, tossing her into the back courtyard and ignoring her.

He had assumed his wife was an uninteresting woman who would meekly accept anything. Then one day, he saw her slice off the arm of his beloved concubine for speaking rudely to her, and he couldn't help but see her differently.

Later, Zhao Song decided to treat his wife well, hoping they could live together in harmony. Unfortunately, his wife only wanted them to be as respectful as "ice" toward each other.

Later still, he saw his cold and indifferent wife walking beneath a tree with a man. The man lifted a hand to shield her from the rain dripping through the branches, and she looked up at him with a radiant smile. Onlookers cheered that they were a perfect match, like a pair of jade ornaments...

Zhao Song felt as if a bloody hole had been ripped open in his chest. She had never smiled at him like that.

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The old Zhao Song: "Li Zhaozhao, you'd better act like a statue of a bodhisattva and fulfill your role as the Marchioness of Wu'an. Stop dreaming up all sorts of nonsense!"

The later Zhao Song: "Li Zhaozhao, have you attained enlightenment? Why can't you love me?"

★ A story about a man who takes a woman by force, falls at his wife's feet and never gets back up, then suffers through a long, painful quest to win her back. ★

★ A guide to reading this novel:

1. One-on-one, both leads are each other's only partners. Marriage before love, with a long, painful quest to win her back. The male lead is a bit of a scoundrel early on.

2. The male lead isn't a good person in the conventional sense, and the female lead may not be either. Read with care if you have strong moral sensibilities.

3. There's a bit of a Mary Sue feel to it. The female lead is incredibly beautiful, and several people will fall for her.

4. More to come if I think of anything else.

Release notice: This novel will be available for paid reading on March 8, 2023.

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★ Upcoming novel 1: Marrying the Crown Prince, a devoted one-on-one romance

When the little crown prince was eight, he climbed a tree, hoping to get over the wall and sneak out of the palace to play. Six-year-old Wang Li stood beneath the tree, tilted her head curiously at him, then shouted "Your Majesty!" at the empty garden.

Startled, the little crown prince slipped and fell from the tree, injuring an extremely important part of his body. From then on, the emperor, the harem consorts, and the court officials all worried about the crown prince's future prospects for having children.

Ten years later, when the crown prince was selecting a consort, the popular candidates, the eldest daughter of the Zhang family of the Duke of Weiguo's household and the fourth daughter of the Jiang family of the Defender-General's household, both suffered mishaps. An imperial edict arrived at the long-declined residence of the Qingxiang princess, and Wang Li became Xiao Yuanzhen's crown princess.

But Wang Li was troubled by the marriage. She and the crown prince had been enemies since childhood, he seemed to have a cousin he loved, her mother-in-law disliked her, and many beautiful women around them were eyeing the crown princess's position, hoping to take her place.

Oh dear, how was she supposed to live like this?

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Scene 1:

Xiao Yuanzhen: "Wang Ali, don't ever bring that up again!"

Wang Li: "Do you mean the time you climbed a tree as a child, fell, and injured that part of your body?"

Xiao Yuanzhen: "..."

Scene 2:

Xiao Yuanzhen smiled smugly, ready to watch the show. "Consort Hou has my father's favor and is the best at making life difficult for people. If she gives you trouble at the palace banquet, I won't help you."

Wang Li: "All right, Your Highness!"

Later, at the palace banquet, the crown prince went all out and argued Consort Hou to the point where she nearly hanged herself.

Wang Li's inner thoughts: "His Highness really is cold on the outside but warm-hearted underneath!"

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A haughty crown prince who says one thing but does another x an adorable and sweet little crown princess

★ A story about a couple married by their parents' arrangement, who go from disliking each other to falling in love, level up and fight monsters together, and finally return home together.

★ Upcoming novel 2: High School Teacher Becomes My Blind Date, a modern romance with a devoted one-on-one couple

Question on Zhihu: What should I do if I run into my former high school teacher on a blind date? Asking online, it's kind of urgent!

When she was a student, Li Li thought Lu Yici was strict, hypocritical, sharp-tongued, meddlesome, and always scolding people. Apart from being tall and handsome, he was useless.

When they were assigned to write about the most lovable person, she couldn't think of anyone. But when asked to write about the person she hated most, she could write a ten-thousand-word story with Lu Yici as the main character.

After graduation, many people missed their high school teachers, but Li Li never missed Lu Yici. She would have been perfectly happy never to see him again.

Later, as an adult, she went on a blind date and discovered that her former teacher was the man she'd been set up with...

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Another question on Zhihu: Is it illegal to pursue a former female student after you've stopped being a teacher?

When Lu Yici was a teacher, he thought of Li Li as a little delinquent, the school's demon flower. Tattoos, smoking, fighting, cheating: she did it all. She was the most troublesome student in class and gave him endless cause for worry. Apart from being pretty, she had no redeeming qualities.

For the many years after he stopped teaching, Lu Yici often thought about this student and worried she might one day show up in the news.

When they met again eight years later, Lu Yici realized that, besides being beautiful, his former student was kind of cute... and he found himself falling for her.

※ When she was young and foolish, Li Li once cursed Lu Yici to never find a partner. She never imagined she'd be the one to make that curse come true.

Theme: Marriage should be based on consent!