Saving the Corrupted Boy

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Li Yin often has a dream. In it, she is imprisoned in a vast, empty hall and reduced to a nobleman's plaything.

The man has a pair of cold, enchanting eyes and wears dazzling red. She vaguely remembers his reddened eyes, and the deep possessiveness in his beautiful gaze.

He fastens shackles on her, a slender silver chain tied around her snow-white, delicate ankle.

He often tells her, "A Yin, you can't get away."

She doesn't know where the strange feeling in her heart comes from, until one day, in her dream, heavy snow blankets the mountains, leaving ten thousand miles of lonely whiteness. A battered young man insists on carrying her across the snowy mountains.

It is the last winter of her life in this world.

Later, Li Yin understands that the so-called dream is the hurried, tumultuous life she lived in her previous life.

In his previous life, Xue Ziyan was nothing more than a servant her father brought home.

The day they first met, his face was smeared with blood and grime, yet he stubbornly reached out to touch the hem of her immaculate white skirt. In his beautiful, unyielding black eyes, he saw her breathtaking face reflected.

At the time, Li Yin was an innocent young lady, raised in the lap of luxury. She didn't understand what kind of emotion lay in the young man's dark eyes.

Later, the Li family was framed, her father was thrown into the imperial prison, and her mother died with hatred in her heart. In a single night, she went from a cherished young lady to a prisoner, while the boy she had once looked down on became a powerful court official.

Her father entrusted her to the son of an old friend. On the day of her wedding, a gleaming sword lifted her veil, and the young man from her dreams asked coldly, "Who are you marrying?"

Behind him, blood flowed in winding trails. Her future husband's entire family lay dead, and the young man carried her away in her wedding dress to a place no one could find.

He imprisoned her. She wept day after day, until an avalanche buried her and she never woke again.

That absurd, uncanny dream came to an end.

When Li Yin wakes, she finds that she has returned to the time before she ever met the boy.

Her father is still alive, and the Li family still flourishes.

She is relieved, thinking that this time she must not let herself soften toward him. But amid the clamor of the street that day, she turns around and sees the face covered in grime.

All she can think of is that desolate winter, when the boy carried her across the cold snow.

Once again, she feels compassion for him. This time, though, she treats him differently.

She privately hopes that the boy will protect her one day, so she never gives him a hard time during their days together.

She wants him to remember her kindness.

But she doesn't know that the boy has always retained his memories of his previous life.

[Male Lead's Perspective]

At the lowest, most wretched point of his previous life, she brought him into her home. The bright, pure face of the young girl unexpectedly entered his heart. For a time, he cherished her like his own lifeblood.

But he never expected that this drop of lifeblood would become a thorn lodged in his heart.

He couldn't pull it out or make it go away. Whenever he touched it, it made him ache unbearably.

Later, he understood the source of that pain:

Li Yin did not love him.

She treated him like any other servant. When she was in a good mood, she might tease him a little. When she was in a bad mood, he would be punished too.

At first, her gaze always held a hint of indifference, as if she looked down on lowly people like him. Later, Xue Ziyan began to see timid fear in those beautiful eyes.

Li Yin was afraid of him.

He laughed madly in his heart. In that soft place no one could see, he was clearly falling for her, inch by inch.

But he hadn't been able to keep Li Yin by his side.

So, the first time he saw the woman he loved in this life, he resolutely grabbed her sleeve, just as he had in his previous life.

From that moment on, no matter what happened, he would never let go.

Li Yin belonged to him.

That was the belief he had held fast to, with all his heart, for so long.

Delicate young lady x A young wolf who hides his true nature

1. Both leads are reborn.

2. Tragic ending in their previous life, happy ending in this life.

3. The female lead was spoiled and willful in her previous life, while the male lead was obsessive and gloomy.

4. In this life, the female lead has turned over a new leaf and wants to make up for the regrets of her previous life. The male lead is still the same, except now he knows how to disguise himself: a big bad wolf in sheep's clothing.

Xie Liushu has breathtaking beauty, a powerful family, and an engagement to the Crown Prince. She is the envy of countless noble young ladies in the capital.

But disaster strikes. The Crown Prince dies, and her family changes sides. In a single night, she falls from heaven into the abyss.

Her father offers her to the newly enthroned emperor to curry favor with the powerful.

The new emperor is said to be exceptionally handsome, yet ruthless and cruel. Some claim to have seen him make a glass lamp from a beauty's bones and play with it every day. He rose to the throne by climbing a mountain of corpses and a river of blood.

Xie Liushu acts with extreme caution, afraid of becoming the new emperor's next victim.

As heavy snow falls, she rides in a small sedan chair through a side gate of the imperial city. She looks up to see an ornate carriage approaching. She bows with the others, but accidentally meets a pair of cold, indifferent eyes.

Like spring snow in the third month, silent and icy.

Familiar, yet strange.

Her long lashes tremble, hiding the emotions in her eyes.

No one knows that she once shared a past with the new emperor.

That year, she was the Xie family's daughter raised outside their main household. In a torrential downpour, she saved a young man. He seemed quiet and reserved, yet he repaired the cracked, leaky tiles for her.

After she looked after him for a while, he asked her to meet him at the temple in town, saying he had something to tell her.

On the day of their appointment, someone from the Xie family came to take her back. She hesitated, but in the end, she didn't go to meet him.

She didn't know that the boy waited from dawn until dark. The glass lamp in his hand gradually went out, as if foretelling what was to come.

She never came. Instead, he received a letter of farewell. Between the white walls and tiled roofs, the boy was left with no weakness to exploit, and his black eyes gradually grew dark and sinister in the night.

When they met again, the young emperor's expression was indifferent, his beauty unmatched. He slowly descended from the imperial carriage, looked at her graceful figure, and asked with a half-smile, "Do you still remember me, Imperial Sister-in-law?"

[Forced Pursuit]

One-on-one romance | Single-couple | Happy ending

Theme: Never give up hope, no matter where you find yourself.