My Cousin Wants to Have Her Fun and Leave

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Jiang Yun was a cherished young lady raised by the Empress Dowager deep within the palace. Later, when her grandmother fell ill, she left the palace to visit home. Her grandmother was fine, but there was a cousin in the household she had never met.

Chu Yu was a graceful gentleman, handsome and elegant, if rather cold and not always pleasant in the way he spoke.

But this cousin had saved her life, and she happened to learn that the two of them were engaged. Jiang Yun naturally took his side in everything, and because he was her future husband, she put him to work buying her rouge, making incense, and even taking her horseback riding.

Everyone in the household could see what was going on, but Chu Yu treated her as usual, leaving Jiang Yun secretly troubled.

One day, someone stood up for Jiang Yun and told her that Chu Yu had recently been spending time with another woman.

Thinking of how strangely Chu Yu had been acting lately, Jiang Yun demanded with a cold expression, "Do you know that you and I are engaged?"

Chu Yu didn't answer. He simply stared at her.

Jiang Yun returned to the palace with a heavy heart, only to learn that the engagement had originally been arranged with Chu Yu's elder brother, who could return to the capital any day now.

His elder brother asked to meet Jiang Yun.

Jiang Yun went to meet him, but something happened. When she opened her eyes, she saw Chu Yu sitting beside her bed, his expression complicated as he asked, "Are you planning to have your fun with me and then abandon me?"

"Jiang Yun, don't even think about it! I'll steal you away from your wedding."

*

When Chu Yu first learned that Jiang Yun had gotten close to him because of their engagement, he mocked himself: Wishful thinking.

When he heard that she was engaged to his elder brother and had already arranged to meet him, all he wanted to say to Jiang Yun was: Wishful thinking.

PS:

At heart, this is a sweet little love story between two young people.

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After Wei Zixian brought her back to the capital, Xie Tang learned that he was the fourth legitimate son of the Duke's household, not a poor scholar from a humble background. His apparent misfortune had only been due to a bout of amnesia.

The Duke's household was a powerful, noble family, bound by rules at every turn.

Xie Tang was an orphan of low status, brought into the Duke's household under the vague title of a cousin. She silently endured the servants' jeers and everyone's mistreatment.

All she could hold on to were the promises Wei Zixian had made while holding her hand.

"A Tang, I love you."

"A Tang, I'll marry you when spring comes. All right?"

"You have to trust me, A Tang. I'm the one you can depend on."

But after returning to the capital and recovering his memories, Wei Zixian seemed like a different person.

He was still gentle, but he could no longer hide the disdain in his eyes. When he looked at Xie Tang, there was no warmth left, and his brow was always furrowed.

Until the day Wei Zixian summoned her to his study.

Pointing to a pile of portraits, he said, "A Tang, I've found a few good marriage prospects for you."

Xie Tang's heart finally died.

*

On the day she tried on her wedding clothes, rain fell through a thick mist, and the room was dim.

Someone held her captive as she lay in disarray, helplessly watching the young man she had arranged to meet approach her hiding place step by step.

Behind her stood Wei Zixian, who had once been the very picture of noble virtue.

"A Tang, don't make a sound. Do you want him to see you?"

*

Wei Zixian had been proper and self-disciplined since childhood, strict with himself and an exemplar of the capital's noble families.

The six months he had lost his memory and lived without rules in Yecheng were the part of his past he least wanted to discuss. Xie Tang was the person he least wanted to face.

But when she truly left him behind, he couldn't control his panic and fell deeper for her.

He even wished he could kill the "himself" she loved.

Theme: Love should be pure.