[Blurb]
Wen Fu was born a concubine-born daughter of the Earl's household. Because her father resorted to underhanded schemes, a twist of fate forced her to marry Pei Heng, the heir of the Duke's household.
After the wedding, her mother-in-law disliked her and her husband was cold and distant. She watched every word and step, living cautiously in the household.
When Pei Heng returned from battle, he brought back a beautiful woman. That woman damaged a keepsake from Wen Fu's mother, and Wen Fu couldn't help but reprimand her.
Pei Heng coldly rebuked her. "It was just a little trinket. Was it really worth making such a fuss over? Don't lose your poise."
The woman accidentally fell into a pond, then sobbed and claimed Wen Fu had pushed her.
Disgust showed between his brows as he said icily, "Madam Wen, don't bring the schemes of your Earl's household into the Duke's household!"
Wen Fu said nothing. She neither explained nor made a scene. Instead, she considerately presented him with a divorce agreement...
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Pei Heng was as handsome and refined as a jade tree, proud and distinguished, yet he had been forced to marry a concubine-born daughter.
At first, he looked down on her, convinced she was a scheming woman.
Later, he realized his young wife was gentle and mild, well-behaved and proper. Even when his mother made things difficult for her, she never complained.
So he supposed he could treat her with mutual respect and live out their days together.
Yet one day, she proposed a divorce...
Only then did he discover that his wife had a childhood sweetheart with whom she had shared a mutual affection since they were young. In front of that man, she could laugh freely, showing a lively spirit he had never seen around him.
His wife was no silent, withdrawn woman, either. In front of the person she loved, she was a chatterbox. She simply had nothing to say to him.
He also discovered that his wife had been secretly taking birth control medicine all along. She had no desire to bear him children. She only wanted to be free of all ties one day, so she could rekindle her old relationship with that man.
It turned out she had never had him in her heart...
Reader's Guide:
1. Both leads are sexually inexperienced. The heroine has a first love, and the hero goes completely off the rails after finding out.
2. Marriage first, love later. A scumbag hero's long road to winning back his wife.
3. This story is set in a fictional world and contains many original liberties. Please don't nitpick the historical details.
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Jiang Muzhen rescued a gravely wounded man on a snowy night.
The man was gentle, handsome, and refined. He didn't look down on the scar on her face and even promised that he would marry her someday.
She tended to him with care, even taking out all her savings to pay for his treatment. When the money ran out, she stayed up each night by lamplight doing embroidery to earn money for his medicine and care.
Only when a group of men in black appeared did she learn his true identity: Lu Xuanyu, heir to the Marquis of Dingyuan's household.
He took her back to Chang'an and settled her in the most remote corner of the marquis's residence. The gentle look in his eyes turned cold and distant in an instant.
The servants looked down on her, while the old madam despised her low birth and disfigured appearance, insulting her at every turn.
At a banquet, someone accused her of stealing. When he heard, a flicker of disdain crossed his eyes, and his voice was cold as winter frost.
"Zhen-niang, hand it over, and I won't hold it against you."
Jiang Muzhen watched helplessly as he defended his noble-born fiancee, tears instantly clouding her eyes.
Only later did she learn that he had been engaged to someone in Chang'an all along, and the promises he had made to her were only to keep her from abandoning him while he was gravely wounded.
Jiang Muzhen was heartbroken by this man.
On the very day of his wedding, she quietly packed her things and ran away...
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Lu Xuanyu was ambushed and stranded in the countryside, where a village woman rescued him.
To survive, he swallowed his disdain and humored her. Looking at the ugly scar on her face, he made a promise only she would believe.
At first, he thought it would be enough to leave her some money as thanks when he was able to leave.
But on the day he departed, seeing the woman's reddened eyes, his heart softened and he changed his mind, taking her back to the marquis's residence with him.
Later, he thought that after he married his principal wife, he could give her the status of a concubine, let her enjoy wealth and splendor, and protect her for the rest of her life. That would still count as keeping his promise.
Yet this low-born woman had the nerve to run away.
The first time, he quickly caught her and, suppressing his anger, promised to raise her to the rank of favored concubine one day.
The second time they met, three years had passed.
The tides of fortune had turned: he had become the emperor, a man above all others, while she was still a village woman in a simple hairpin and coarse clothes.
But one thing had changed. The scar on her face had been healed, and she was standing beneath a flowering tree with a handsome scholar, exchanging tender looks.
He heard her softly call the scholar "husband" with his own ears. He saw her fair, delicate face flush pink as the scholar smiled and drew her into his arms.
A mass of guards surged forward at once and pulled them apart. He pressed the scholar's head beneath his foot and stared at her with a menacing gaze.
"Zhen-niang, I'll ask you once more. Who is your husband?"
Reader's Guide:
1. A hero's long road to winning her back, with possessive coercion.
2. The hero seems refined and gentle, but is actually dark and unhinged. His experiences in youth twisted him into a cruel, ruthless man.
3. The heroine is gentle yet resilient, like a reed.
Theme: Don't wait until you've lost something to regret it.
How should I put it? Although he was, I was feeling panicked. From the beginning to the end, I really didn't see the prince changing at all. So I have always only supported the second male lead, but in order to force the second male lead to be eliminated, I forced an outhouse, which actually kind of ruined the character. At the end, the heroine makes a 180-degree turn and suddenly accepts the prince... It is more reasonable to say that she is grateful and agrees with her body than to fall in love suddenly. The main reason is that the conflict in the early stage is very sufficient, but the unraveling chapter in the later stage is too short. After the conflict breaks out, how do the two adjust themselves? There is no process of running in and starting again. In fact, the climax of the story is the outbreak of conflicts, and the highlight is the rebuilding after destruction. It is precisely this highlight that is not enough. But if this is the author's first work, there is still hope for the future.
I was really sick. I frowned all the way while reading this. I wanted to see how outrageous it could be and how the author could write it so that a person who has been struggling in misery could go from not loving to loving. The author's writing is very good. After all, ancient novels are like this. I was mentally prepared, but after reading it, I still couldn't help but want to complain. Even if the male protagonist later sees his own feelings clearly, he still seems to put the female protagonist on an equal footing. However, most of the female protagonist's sufferings originate from him, and the social status of the male protagonist and his childhood education itself determine his alpha male protagonist mentality and his right to speak. It would be easy to say if this story was be, but it is he. In the end, the female protagonist is just repeating the ending of the female protagonist. Finally, I really can't understand what the heroine's mentality is like? After discovering that the whole world is fake and everyone is evil, he gave up on himself and then the male protagonist took action a little bit. How moved? I can only say that I don't understand but respect the blessing, but if I really encounter this kind of situation in reality, I can only say that I am sick.
Being forced to fuck feels like eating a fly, which is very frustrating, especially after laying the groundwork for my cousin so much, and then forcibly going against the CP. Even if my cousin dies, it won't be as uncomfortable as eating a fly. Bai Yueguang is good at everything, so why can't he be the second male lead?
I didn't order all of them, I just jumped to watch it, it's bloody bloody 1. Let's talk about the male protagonist first. I didn't feel that he respected the female protagonist at all. When he found out that the female protagonist had someone in his heart, he started to forcefully humiliate the female protagonist and never put her on the same footing. 2. The male protagonist has a foreign wife and a son. He found out about the heroine before her second marriage. He can completely induce the heroine to find out the truth, and the heroine can escape in time. However, the male protagonist has to reveal it at the wedding. It will indeed make the male partner lose face, but has he ever thought about the heroine's situation? He also made the heroine lose face and became the laughingstock of the whole capital. He also took away the fainted heroine at the wedding, which made people feel that the heroine was having trouble with her ex-husband while getting married for the second time. The heroine lost all her reputation and had to marry the hero again. He, the hero, really regarded the heroine as his possessions, but he never thought about how to clean the sewage from the heroine. It was really bad. . . Thunder
Why does the heroine always get fucked up?
I always feel that Shen Mohuai would not do this. He loves Afu so much. Afu has been miserable enough. Why do you have to write this kind of thing to Shen Mohuai? Do you have to tie the male and female protagonists together?
In order to have male and female protagonists, give the second male character a character, well, just because the second male lead is not good, it doesn't mean that the male lead can be considered good.
What the hell is this writing about? The author doesn't feel sorry for the heroine when he gets beaten up. He makes fun of it, but he feels sorry for the hero even after meeting the second male lead???? Mad, she was domestically abused, can she still marry him??? How shameless it is. . . Abandoned, despised and distrusted in all kinds of ways. . . Have you forgotten all about it???? What a waste of my little money!!!
I'm really mean when I see this kind of thing. Author, don't be too serious about your misogyny. It makes me so angry. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Wow, my God, there's no need to do this just to get the second male lead off the production line.