How Do I Get Rid of the Gloomy Big Shot Who's Clinging to Me!

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[Next novel: Marry the Cold Branch. Blurb at the very bottom.]

-Also titled Pure Heart, No Escape

-Destructive and ruthless to the outside world? Gloomy and devoted in private? A seemingly gentle but secretly mad assassin x a frail crown princess who seems pitiful to outsiders but acts spoiled and gets her way in private-

[1]

Zhao Leli was the legitimate daughter of the Duke of Protecting the State's household. With a lotus-like face and willow-leaf brows, she was captivatingly beautiful, the most outstanding beauty in all of Gusu.

The day they first met was the day she married into the Eastern Palace.

Beneath the twin towers, a man in a black robe and red sash held an embroidered blade wet with blood, a gentle and tender smile playing on his lips.

His name was Xie Guizhang. A devil born into the world, he was feared by everyone in the Great Zhang Kingdom. The authorities offered a million in bounty for his head, and the Imperial City Bureau had pursued him for seven years, all to no avail.

Everyone believed that, given Xie Guizhang's cold and ruthless methods, the crown princess could never survive after being abducted.

Little did they know that on the night after he took her, the man toyed with the hair at her temple and whispered hoarsely in her ear, possessive and intimate:

"A Li, you looked at that crown prince a little too long yesterday. How about I make him blind tomorrow?"

[2]

Zhao Leli had once been the crown princess whom everyone admired. Then, in a sudden turn of events, she became a captive kept by the Devil Xie. No matter how far she ran, he caught her and dragged her back every single time.

She cried and made a scene, and he forced her to cry even harder.

With nowhere left to run, Zhao Leli sought a way to survive and began to play along, acting as considerate as could be.

She put on such a convincing act that Xie Guizhang believed he had thoroughly tamed her.

Later, the crown prince led his troops to rescue her, and Xie Guizhang was thrown into the imperial prison.

He was in a wretched state, yet he smiled gently and warmly, his eyes full of desire for her.

[3]

Later still, the crown prince colluded with the enemy, and the realm fell. Just as the rebel army's blades were about to strike Zhao Leli, Xie Guizhang fought his way out of the dungeon.

In one moment, he cut off the rebel leader's head and sent the crown prince to his death at the city gate.

The next moment, his eyes bloodshot, he pulled her tightly into his arms amid the flames and buried his face against her neck. Beneath his voice lay the most desperate yearning and grievance: "A Li, don't go. Don't leave me alone..."

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Xie Guizhang spent twenty-three years clawing his way through the abyss. Defiance was his creed, and he was cold and taciturn. The whole world despised him, but Zhao Leli, who had unexpectedly entered his life, lifted him out of the darkness. He vowed to offer her the finest things in the world, to pave her way with his iron bones, bow down to her, and keep her temples free of frost.

"If white jade is not destroyed, what could be called a precious jade?", Epigraph

Reader's Guide:

1. Set in the Northern Song dynasty, this is a story of mutual salvation and a mystery-solving plot. The plot-to-romance ratio is 6:4.

2. Happy ending, both are each other's first and only partner, one-to-one romance.

3. Updates daily at 12:00.

4. The novel's values are sound. The heroine marries the second male lead, Song Mo. Their marriage is in name only, and while it lasts, there is virtually no romantic relationship between her and the male lead.

5. The romance is extremely melodramatic, with amnesia, regret and redemption, and all sorts of other tropes. In short, the heroine keeps running and the hero keeps chasing. Readers who enjoy that kind of plot are welcome!

6. As for the original title, Pure Heart, No Escape, "Susu" is the heroine's childhood nickname, so now it makes sense.

Coming Soon: Marry the Cold Branch (Rebirth):

Zhang Wanji was a royal daughter, gentle and proper, but before she came of age, three of her betrothed had already died.

Everyone at court knew that the elder brother by her side wielded immense power and was a ruthless killer whom no one dared offend.

Late at night, her elder brother sat beside her bed, playing with a strand of her hair. His tone was like someone teasing a caged songbird:

"You are my future empress. Who would dare lay a hand on you?"

After her elder brother ascended the throne, she behaved herself and remained courteous and gentle throughout his twenty years in power, striving to be a good empress.

If she had not accidentally learned that the person she loved had been murdered by the man who shared her bed, Zhang Wanji might have believed that she could somehow make do with her marriage of convenience to her elder brother.

When she was young and foolish, she had listened to his lies and thought that marrying him would keep her beloved safe. Instead, she had unknowingly become an accomplice!

Spend her life being gentle and obedient? She refused!

Be empress over all under heaven? She would no longer take the throne!

Be a well-behaved, compliant girl? Never again!

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She opened her eyes once more, reborn in her younger days.

In the training grounds in the afternoon, the sound of golden spears rang out. Gilded sunlight glimmered on Zhang Wanji's temples. She narrowed her eyes against the light and, in a daze, saw the young man she had longed for: proud brows, a solitary and taciturn nature, wounds on his body, and a river flowing through those slender bones.

At that time, she was still the treasured pearl of Yedu, her father was alive, and her elder brother had yet to rise to power.

Her beloved, the future god of war on the battlefield and the people's adored Marquis of Dingbei, was still a poor-born boy whom everyone looked down on, a wolf cub.

He had five years left before her elder brother would have him killed at the banquet celebrating his victorious return.

The bloody storms and treacherous intrigue had yet to reach the clear skies. Nothing had happened, and nothing had been lost.

At that moment, Zhang Wanji descended gracefully from the high platform and, out of courtesy, brought her elder brother some refreshments to quench his thirst.

Everyone believed that the little princess and her elder brother were deeply devoted to each other. Even her elder brother thought so, until they saw

The princess held a handkerchief in her slender fingers and gently wiped the wounds on the young man's face, as though polishing a treasured object. She asked softly, "Does it hurt?"

[A gentle, restrained, resilient little princess who acts spoiled to get her way x a ruthless, taciturn, loyal, devoted, wolfish great general]

Theme: Always keep hope and love in your heart