Seducing the Spoiled

Xue Yan was engaged to the eldest son of the Marquis of Zhenbei's household. No one knew that she had once shared an unforgettable, painful past with his twin younger brother. Xue Yan waited for her wedding, clinging to a desperate hope. But a great fire before the ceremony turned the happy occasion into a funeral. Xie Ce entered the mourning hall and comforted his grief-stricken elder brother. "The dead cannot come back to life." While the Gu family was arranging Gu Xueyan's funeral, in a villa on the outskirts of the city, the "dead" Xue Yan wept, tears falling like pearls, and desperately begged Xie Ce: "Please, let me go." Xie Ce held Xue Yan's hands captive and kissed away her tears one by one. "Didn't I tell you not to marry him?" His voice was tender as he murmured slowly, "Let you go? In your dreams." Xie Ce had coveted the woman his elder brother loved for a long time. Since he could not win her, he had no choice but to take her by force. ------ Coming soon: After Calling Him the Wrong Husband ------ Shen Ningyan had just married into her new family. On the second day after her wedding, she went to pay her respects and serve tea, as custom required. From afar, she saw her new husband waiting in the corridor and sweetly called, "Husband." The man standing beneath the bird-shaped wind chimes turned around. Only then did she see that he merely resembled her husband. The man gave her a deep, scrutinizing look. Flustered, Ningyan averted her gaze and hurried away. It was only when she served tea that she learned he was the old madam's youngest son, Ye Lian. She should have called him Uncle. Ningyan blushed and awkwardly bowed. "Greetings, Uncle." After a long pause, a faint "Mm" finally came from above her. Ningyan thought the matter was behind her. At a spring banquet, someone gave her a shove. She accidentally twisted her ankle, and through the pain, her trembling voice called, "Husband." Her husband and her uncle, seated among the guests, both turned to look at her. Later, Ningyan learned that the one who had pushed her was her husband's childhood sweetheart, the treasure of his heart. Heartbroken, Ningyan was gripped by the chin from behind by Ye Lian, who made her look at the two people in the room carrying on an affair. "Who should you be calling your husband?" * Ye Nanrong had been pressured by his elders into marrying a woman he did not love, and he had always resented it. At that moment, his uncle comforted him. "If you're really unhappy with this marriage, I can find a way to help you." Ye Nanrong readily agreed. "Thank you, Uncle, for making this possible." He did not know then that he would regret it. Nor did he know that everything his uncle had done was to make it possible for himself! ------ Second upcoming novel: Spring's Jade Waist Pendant ------ Yinrou was Master Chen's concubine. In her previous life, after Master Chen died, the madam sold her and the other concubines out of the household, leaving them to a miserable fate. It was the Third Young Master Chen who found her body and buried her. This man, who had always seemed as pure and clear as jade to Yinrou, stood before her memorial tablet for a long time after her death, saying nothing. Reborn before any of it happened, Yinrou knew she had to find someone who could protect her. She thought of the Third Young Master. But no matter how much she tried to please and entice him, the Third Young Master remained cold and unmoved. At last, Yinrou gave up and dared not approach him again. She sought another way. But the Third Young Master's attitude toward her grew increasingly strange. Until one night, when the drunken Third Young Master gripped her waist hard enough to hurt. His voice by her ear was fierce: "Satisfied? Isn't this what you wanted, for me to sink with you to the very end?" * Chen Yanqing had always been upright and self-restrained. He despised his father's womanizing and the debauchery that filled the household. One day, he happened to pass through his father's courtyard when Yinrou, disheveled and unsteady on her feet, stumbled into his arms. Chen Yanqing raised a hand to push her away, but instead he felt an extraordinarily slender waist trembling in his grasp. He saw how deliberately yet clumsily she tried to tempt him. At first, he watched coldly from the sidelines, but soon she was disturbing his thoughts again and again. But then she began smiling at someone else. So he bound the woman who had unsettled his heart and held her captive. He wanted to crush the slender waist that had haunted his sweetest dreams time and again, but when he touched it once more, all he wanted was to hide her away, so that from then on she would smile only for him. Blurb dated: 2022.08.18 Theme: Loving one person from beginning to end