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[Childhood friends + the second male lead wins]
Lu Qingchan, the wife of the Marquis of Dingyuan, was born into a prominent family. Though young, she was gentle, virtuous, and excellent at managing a household. In her three years as mistress of the estate, everyone in the household, inside and out, had praised her.
The couple had been childhood friends, and after marrying they treated each other with respect and shared a deep affection.
People said the Marquis of Dingyuan had once prayed for his sick wife on a snowy night, and had once spent a fortune just to make her happy. To outsiders, they truly seemed like a pair of immortals.
The only imperfection was that she had yet to bear them a child.
But only Lu Qingchan knew what her life was really like.
She had been full of joy on her wedding night, but when he lifted her veil, she learned that his heart belonged to someone else. He had already planned to bring that person into the household once they were married.
She endured three years of a marriage in name only, only to receive a divorce letter in the end.
Then chaos swept the land, and the emperor fled north.
During their escape, she was abandoned once again. After falling into the hands of the rebels, Lu Qingchan was about to take her own life when a pair of familiar yet unfamiliar hands suddenly pulled her free.
She stared blankly as someone held her in his arms. Only after a long while did she realize she had been saved.
The tears she had held back for years soaked Liu Yi's lapel and broke his heart.
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The Langya Liu clan had been a family of distinguished officials for generations, renowned throughout the land for their virtuous family traditions. Their new head, Liu Yi, was exceptionally handsome and refined, with a noble, transcendent bearing.
Not long after coming of age, he succeeded to the post of military governor of Hedong. When chaos struck, he single-handedly stood against the rebels, becoming the most celebrated figure of his time.
Yet when peace finally returned, he asked the emperor for just one thing.
He wanted the Son of Heaven to arrange a marriage, to let him wed the discarded wife of the former Marquis of Dingyuan, and to let the girl he cherished most remarry in splendor.
He did not want her to be virtuous and dutiful, nor to endure and force herself to bear things.
He wanted to spoil her until she was a child again, so he could make up for all the years he had lost.
[Little scene]
After their wedding, Liu Yi got drunk, picked up his wife, and kissed her again and again, thinking he had returned to his youth.
The man who was always composed and ruthless in battle began to cry. In a hoarse voice, he said, “A Chan, don't marry the Marquis of Dingyuan.”
Lu Qingchan replied helplessly, “I only want to marry you, my dear.”
Everyone laughed as they looked at the perfect couple. Only the Marquis of Dingyuan, hidden in the shadows, vomited blood.
Reader's guide:
1. Devoted and persistent hero × gentle, beautiful heroine. One-on-one romance, both leads sexually inexperienced.
2. Daily updates, guaranteed completion. Usually updated at midnight. I'll give you a heads-up if anything comes up. (*/ω\*)
3. The second male lead wins. He is both her childhood friend and the man who arrives later. The scumbag gets a spectacular downfall. For more reader guidance, see the author's note in Chapter One~
★ Important: This novel has undergone multiple major revisions, as well as a careful edit after completion. The pirated version differs considerably. The complete, error-free version is available only on Jinjiang. Thank you for your love and support, mwah!
Next novel: Meeting Spring
[Amnesia, faked death + angsty, dramatic pursuit]
Yuan Mu had black hair, fair skin, and extraordinary beauty, but her father and brothers did not love her.
Though born to a noble family, she was treated as a bringer of misfortune and kept on an estate for most of her life.
It was not until she was fifteen, when she saved a young man, that she first found herself hoping for a future.
Helan Zhen was handsome and gentle, the finest and most elegant man Yuan Mu had ever met.
Though his birth was humble, his sincere, unwavering love for her nearly swept her away.
On the night before her father was to force her to marry someone else, she cried, “You have to come and marry me...”
The curtains swayed, and Helan Zhen replied in a low voice, “I will.”
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Yuan Mu waited in agony for days, and at last Helan Zhen returned before her wedding.
He wore the emperor's robes, crowned with twelve strings of jade beads.
Only then did she learn that he was not Helan Zhen, the soldier, but Li Congliu, the deposed crown prince: the rightful ruler of the realm and the most exalted man in the world.
Yuan Mu should have been happy. But after Li Congliu ascended the throne, he married her older sister.
Her sister was too frail to bear children, so he wanted Yuan Mu to enter the palace and bear a child in her place.
Li Congliu had forgotten Yuan Mu and the love they had shared.
The emperor was cold and ruthless. He saw only that Yuan Mu was imperfect, and resented her for not being a virgin.
Yuan Mu was imprisoned in the palace for three years, enduring every hardship and barely surviving.
When someone took away her newborn son, she finally fell into despair and set fire to the cold, desolate palace.
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The fire that night was so great that Li Congliu never forgot it, not even until his death.
When he saw her charred corpse, the emperor, who had always been composed and cold, lost control. He fell to his knees and desperately clutched her hand.
Yuan Mu disliked hairpins and ornaments. The only thing she always wore was a crudely made jade bangle on her wrist.
It was an old keepsake Helan Zhen had given her years ago. Li Congliu had hated it and tried to force her to take it off, but Yuan Mu had refused.
At last, Li Congliu remembered that the Helan Zhen Yuan Mu had cherished was him, and that he was the one who had carefully placed the bangle on her wrist.
The woman he had once cherished above all, afraid she might break, was the very one he had destroyed with his own hands.
Li Congliu's heart was shaken. His eyes seemed to bleed, and at last he understood what it meant to have one's heart and guts torn apart.
Reader's guide:
1. Cold emperor × world-weary noblewoman. One-on-one romance, both leads sexually inexperienced.
2. Daily updates! (*/ω\*)
3. The hero is genuinely unhinged. Angsty misunderstandings, amnesia, faked death, coercive pursuit, and a long road to winning his wife back. The hero has romantic and intimate relationships only with the heroine.
Theme: To live in harmony with the world.
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I really don't understand this. My wife described the heroine as tough and strong, but I couldn't find out where the strength lies after reading the full text. She is now the person in power, and she didn't make any preparations, and she didn't bring a few attendants to expose dirty things single-handedly. She is now the person in power, and she never thought about what to do if something happens to her too? The other party even assassinated Liu Ning. Also, she was an official, a female official, not just someone in the backyard. From the beginning, she didn't even have any contact with political affairs and she still became an official? You should at least know a little bit about it, I'm completely confused. I still feel very sorry for her, otherwise I wouldn't have fully booked it. I just really don't understand it. The relationship between the male and female protagonists is inexplicable. The wife repeatedly emphasizes love and family affection. Since the female protagonist likes the male protagonist, even if the male protagonist said those words, how could she be deceived and expect other people to become husband and wife?? She didn't give up on the male protagonist so quickly and stopped falling in love during the epidemic, right? Newlywed and still shy?? (The time when she and Zhao got married are mentioned here) In fact, it didn't feel out of the ordinary. That is to say, it was really out of the ordinary. She was the one in power.
The portrayal of the heroine is too contradictory. She knew clearly that she had gone to the Hongmen Banquet, but she was afraid at the same time. She said she was a powerful official, but it was unclear what the heroine had done.
This chapter is so strange. The heroine comes to the banquet without bringing enough people. What is her strategy? Does she have to let the hero save this person?
The more you look at it, the more outrageous it becomes. First of all, Xue Du knew that Lu was the temporary agent, and then he said that he didn't know that Lu Zai was so important in Liu's heart. No, brother, he already had the power of temporary agent. So if Xue Du knew about this, how could he still not know that Lu had the jade pendant of the director in his hand?? Having a jade pendant is enough to command the Liu family, isn't it important??? When I saw what happened later, I really almost collapsed.
To be honest, I'm speechless... The heroine seems to have lost her mind. I thought she had figured out how to deal with it. So she came to Hongmen Banquet like this. It turned out that she planned to take it one step at a time, right? You confessed the injuries of two people that the Liu family had worked so hard to hide in order to stabilize the situation in public. It's okay to confess, so how about you eliminate the threat? You surrendered yourself first, then confessed, and then were dealt with. Isn't it true that you surrendered to the enemy? Can everyone praise you for this way of doing things? Is it the princess's young master?
When can we really be reconciled? I really don't want to see Zhao Scumbag anymore!
Really only the emotional lines of the male and female protagonists can be seen. What the hell is the career line? The power of the male and female protagonists all depends on outsiders' descriptions and sighs. The female protagonist is repeatedly described as a female official who is ignorant of political affairs and relies on the male protagonist to save her at critical moments... The male protagonist does the same every time. Can't he leave more martial arts guards for the female protagonist? Also, I can't see where the Liu family cattle are. As a powerful family, there are only two of them...
There is also the Zhao family. At the beginning, the male protagonist took over, and he was still able to keep their lives and let them dance until now. The male protagonist is decisive in killing, and Zhao has repeatedly thought about killing the female protagonist and even wanted to slander the female protagonist. Zhao was an official before and it was okay, but now that the world is in turmoil, the male protagonist still does not keep their family safe. Kill them, and let them dance crazily in front of the heroine and wait for something to happen before solving it, but they haven't solved it yet, and they haven't seen what they have solved. Will it make Zhao more and more crazy and annoy the heroine? Life is better than death. Lock them up and don't let them dance in front of you and cause trouble. One guy can dance for so many chapters.
So it turns out they never had a wedding?
Although, why is there no plot about the copywriter asking for marriage?