The Captive Spring Oriole

Yu Xiuying grew up in the countryside, and with her wedding day approaching, her fiancé asked his friend Xiao Yi to bring her to the capital.

Young Master Xiao came from a prominent family, as beautiful as a jade tree. He wouldn't even deign to look her in the eye, and barely said a word.

Would her fiancé look down on her too? Xiuying worried about it every day.

It was her first time traveling a long way by carriage. The jolting nearly shook her apart, but she didn't dare delay Young Master Xiao's journey. She tried her best to endure it, hoping they would reach the capital as soon as possible.

The carriage went out of control and plunged off a cliff. The wind tossed her hair.

She panted in the man's arms, tears in her eyes as she thanked him for saving her life.

But once she reached the capital, she was imprisoned in a quiet residence under strict guard. She couldn't get a single message out.

"Xiao Yi, you madman!" She dodged and kicked him, only for him to grip her ankle and make love to her all night.

Xiao Yi, heir to the Marquis's household, was a close aide to the emperor and the most handsome, accomplished man in the capital.

He had only agreed to his friend's request with great reluctance.

But on the way, for the first time in his life, he tasted the torment of longing.

How could he let anyone else lay a hand on the woman he wanted?

The day after returning to the capital, he took the woman's keepsake to his friend's residence and reported her death.

Reading guide:

1. Honest, gentle country girl & possessive, domineering heir to a marquis, one-on-one romance

2. Groveling for her back, taking her by force, an instinctive physical attraction

Coming soon: Bone-Kissing Caresses. Blurb:

On the day of her engagement, Jiang Yunyi met an elder as noble as jade and as imposing as a mountain: her fiancé's most revered Fifth Uncle, Cui Fuchen.

The Fifth Uncle was only a few years older than them, but he had passed the imperial examination with top honors at sixteen and risen to the highest ranks of the court by the age of twenty. His talent and political acumen were second to none. They felt honored just to look up to him.

The usually distant and aloof Fifth Uncle treated the two of them with remarkable kindness.

Jiang Yunyi was nervous and overwhelmed by the favor, but her fiancé was delighted. "We should spend more time with Fifth Uncle. If our child can learn from him and grow to be even a little like him, that will be a tremendous blessing."

Cui Fuchen couldn't stand having women near him, and had already planned to adopt a younger relative as his heir. Then, on the day his nephew became engaged, he dreamed that his nephew's bride was making love to him in his tent.

When he wanted someone, he had plenty of ways to make sure they were brought right to him.

Jiang Yunyi's child really did look just like Fifth Uncle.

Because he was Cui Fuchen's own flesh and blood!

Gentle, kind, honest heroine & domineering, possessive, patriarchal male lead

Theme: Love can't be forced