She Saved a Wolf

Story blurb: After her husband's family is convicted and their property confiscated, Bai Moyou, a pregnant woman, is implicated and imprisoned. For the moment, she manages to keep her life. In the dark, damp dungeon, Bai Moyou sees the visitor and finally understands the cause of today's calamity. Three grievances stand between her and this old acquaintance. The first was a misunderstanding. Back then, she lied to him to save him from her stepmother. She told him she despised him and thought he was a little beggar living off her charity, and that she had only saved him to make a good impression on the man she loved, Young Master Ma, who was always generous and kind. The second was no misunderstanding. She betrayed him. After Prince Yu recognized him as his heir and he returned in triumph from a victorious campaign, she reported him for impersonating the heir. But she couldn't be blamed. He had tried to force her to become his concubine. Given the same choice again, she would do the same thing. The third grievance was that she didn't listen to him and married someone else. Not only did she marry, she married the man she loved and became pregnant with his child. Bai Lieyang stops before the chains and looks down at Bai Moyou. She was once the person who saved his life, and she is also the woman who betrayed him. Now Bai Lieyang has become the emperor's blade, powerful enough to contend with Prince Yu. At last, he can come back and settle the score with her. Bai Lieyang crouches down, his gaze traveling from her hair to her eyes, lips, and collarbone, then slowly downward. The greed and desire in his eyes, along with his deep hatred, make Bai Moyou instinctively shield her barely showing belly. Bai Lieyang's eyes immediately turn blood red. He realizes that her protecting another man's child hurts him even more than her betrayal. He grabs her wrist, stopping her from doing that again. Her cool skin is clasped in his hand. When Bai Lieyang realizes that he can finally control her without restraint, keep her all to himself, and do whatever he wants to her, he trembles with excitement. When Bai Lieyang was young, he wandered far from home. An orphan with no name, he took the surname Bai out of respect and love for Bai Moyou. He chose the name Lieyang for himself. He was young, and it was winter. He thought Lieyang, the blazing sun, was the best thing in the world, never knowing that something too intensely hot could burn. Reader's guide: 1. A deranged, obsessive, ruthless male lead who forcibly takes the heroine. She runs, and he chases her. 2. The heroine marries twice, and neither husband is the male lead. 3. The leads have a deep feud between them, so they cannot end up together. 4. "A match made in heaven" refers to the heroine and the two second male leads who treated her sincerely. I'll write this one next. It has already begun updating. Title: The Palace Falls Blurb: Wu Ye, founding emperor of the Dawu Dynasty, and Empress Zhang Xian are childhood sweethearts who married young. During her first year as empress, Zhang Xian learns enough to realize that Wu Ye not only doesn't love her, but also looks down on her for her common, streetwise ways. In the second year of the Tianchu era, the empress presents the emperor with a letter of self-reproach and asks to be deposed and sent out of the palace. To the young emperor, who possesses the entire realm and everything in it, this is nothing less than a provocation. The emperor grants Zhang Xian only half her wish. He strips her of her title, demotes her to a commoner, and divorces her, but refuses to let her leave the palace. Instead, he keeps her there as a maid. By this point, Zhang Xian knows she married the wrong man, but she never imagined Wu Ye would disregard their past and be so coldhearted. Still, she has considerable savings, and during her year as empress she has always treated others kindly and won over many female officials and consorts. She only needs to endure five years, and then she can leave the palace safely. But things don't go as she hoped. In her first year as a palace maid, the female official who could have protected her is transferred away, and the consort who was willing to take her in at her palace is demoted and can barely protect herself. In her second year as a maid, she is transferred to Yuanlong Hall, where the emperor lives, and forced to endure Wu Ye's unpredictable temper. She could bear all that, but what Zhang Xian cannot accept is the emperor forcing her to spend the night with him. She protests, "Your Majesty and I are already divorced. Apart from our master-servant relationship, there is nothing between us." Wu Ye says, "You know we're master and servant. Then whatever your master tells you to do, you do." In her third year, the emperor stops giving her the contraceptive medicine he had ordered for her. Zhang Xian despairs and decides to risk everything to escape, even if it costs her life. She succeeds, but only for two years. After Zhang Xian escapes, Wu Ye is driven mad with rage and frantic with the search. Two years later, when he sees her married to another man, he calms down. If he takes her back like this, won't that be too easy on her? He wants her to know what it feels like to toss and turn, unable to sleep at night. Theme: Don't take things to extremes.