Sweet girl with a cold heart x ruthless black-lotus beauty
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Chuchu transmigrates into a male power-fantasy novel as the male lead's doomed first wife, a pure-looking white lotus with a vicious heart.
Because she once injured the male lead's leg, on their wedding night he breaks all four of her limbs, destroys her senses, then throws her to the dogs.
Chuchu: Shaking with fear.
The frail young man on the bed slowly raises his eyes, then watches her prick the wound on his left leg with a poisoned needle.
His sharp phoenix eyes turn vicious as he glares at her.
Chuchu squeezes out some tears and sobs, "I didn't mean to hurt you."
Then she promptly cuts her wrist and feeds him her blood to prove her innocence.
Chuchu coughs up blood from time to time, yet still gives him a bowl of her blood every day.
After seven days, the young man's leg has healed, but his gaze at Chuchu remains dark and hostile. Chuchu only wants to escape her tragic fate. She wants nothing more to do with him.
So Chuchu takes him back to the Qi residence and subtly tries to bring him and her older sister, Qi Wanwan, together.
Later, when he has to return to Youzhou, the young man's eyes turn red at the corners as he begs her, "Chuchu, come with me."
"Please..."
Chuchu calmly replies, "A woman who is formally betrothed becomes a wife. One who elopes becomes a concubine."
The young man is overcome with madness and swears a blood oath that he will come and ask for her hand.
Chuchu promptly packs her things and runs away.
The scenery in Jiangzhou is beautiful. She buys a house and leisurely watches the clouds drift by.
Until one day, the house is surrounded by heavily armed soldiers. A man in black, fierce as a phantom, steps out from behind them.
The man's appearance is eerily beautiful. He looks down at her and sighs, "Chuchu, why did you run?"
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Yan Zhuo, the seventh son of the Yan family, was born rebellious. Rumor has it he harbors treasonous ambitions and wants to seize the throne.
The emperor fears him. As it happens, Yan Zhuo uses an old token to ask for the hand of Qi Chuchu, the sixth daughter of the Qi family, or else he will march on Pingyin. The emperor immediately gives her up.
Unexpectedly, a month later, she is sent back.
That very day, Yan Zhuo lays siege to the city and leads an army of five hundred thousand into Pingyin.
Dressed in black armor and wearing half a mask, he sneers, "If you dare deceive me, you will pay the price."
Yan Zhuo then kills the reigning emperor and ascends the throne ten days later.
That night.
The new emperor's voice is hoarse as he grips the slender waist of the person beneath him and smiles tenderly. "Chuchu, I love you so much. You should love me too..."
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Reading guide:
1. The male lead in the original novel has no love interest.
2. The heroine's older sister, Qi Wanwan, is not a good person.
3. May involve coercive pursuit.
Theme: Self-reliance and strength
