A Reckless Plucking

Deliberate Betrayal: To yield without principle.

Also known as: The love cheat and the loyal dog she drove mad.

Dan Hong has been exiled again.

She is the daughter of a convicted minister, condemned to a lowly status before she was even born. Her father died when she was five, and her mother, unable to raise her, actually sold her off.

For years, she drifted from place to place, alone and helpless.

After being bought by the Minister of Revenue's household, she seduced a talented young gentleman, and was on the verge of escaping her status as a servant.

Then the minister was executed for embezzlement, and all the household servants were exiled.

But Dan Hong refuses to accept her fate.

She kills someone and escapes, braving the wind and snow to reach a small town.

There, Dan Hong encounters someone fully grown now, strong and silent, but whom she has completely forgotten, and who has waited more than ten years for her: her good dog.

She feigns tenderness, persuading him to use marriage to cover up her mysterious past. She uses love as bait, making him kill for revenge and lie to the authorities.

In the end, unable to endure the desolation of the northern lands, she waits for an opportunity to pack up and leave.

Dan Hong thinks she'll never see him again in this life.

But at a victory banquet celebrating the defeat of the enemy, she falls into a familiar, warm embrace. A low voice sounds in her ear. "Isn't this enough?"

The common-born general, now at the height of his power, holds her firmly around the waist. "Isn't my position now enough to make you come back to me?"

Her voice is like an icicle. "I'm getting married next spring."

The groom is the refined young gentleman who pledged himself to her in secret all those years ago. He has now placed first in the imperial examination and won the emperor's favor.

Wang Shuo thought that if he treated her wholeheartedly, cared for her with attentive tenderness, and even lied and killed for her, she would stay by his side forever.

She had promised, in the most loving terms, to wait for him, yet still abandoned him.

In his empty home, all that remained was a letter from her old lover, asking her to come to him.

He came before her, his expression dark with a fierce, blood-soaked presence. But when he saw the pity in her eyes as she looked at the scars left by battle, all his resentment crumbled.

Faced with her coldness and complaints, her struggles and resentment, Wang Shuo had no choice but to yield her to someone else.

But he had overestimated himself.

Armored soldiers carrying weapons stormed into the joyous wedding like swords cleaving through it. The gaze Wang Shuo had always kept steady as a rock turned wild with madness. He seized the bride who should have belonged to him and tried to take her away, while she fought with all her strength to resist him.

As they struggled, the groom, at the end of his patience, drew his sword and struck.

With life and death hanging in the balance, Wang Shuo still refused to give way. He stared only at Dan Hong, grief spilling from his resolute eyes, as if asking her:

Choose him, or choose me?

I want to write about a bad woman who cheats in love.

Warning: The heroine has no heart!!

Take care of the dog, don't abandon him (tears).

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A king steals his minister's love | The woman has experience, the man doesn't |

A scheming sister-in-law who looks sweet and innocent x a proud younger brother-in-law driven to obsession

Xie Yu'an detests his sister-in-law, Madam Fan.

She should be observing chastity for his deceased elder brother, not following his mother's arrangements and coming to the capital to "look after" the younger brother-in-law preparing for the spring imperial examination.

Xie Yu'an knows what his mother is planning, and he is deeply ashamed of it.

But Madam Fan is meek and yielding, soft and easy to bully.

She can't live without him.

At the Qionglin Banquet, the newly crowned top scholar Xie Yu'an publicly refuses the new emperor's marriage arrangement. Amid the commotion, he looks at Madam Fan, who has come to the banquet disguised as his maid, and thinks: She can only rely on me.

He doesn't notice the dazzled gaze that falls on Madam Fan from behind him.

Not long after, Madam Fan is invested as Lady of Wei and comes and goes from the palace. Xie Yu'an goes from the top scholar of the imperial examination to the younger brother of Lady of Wei.

Both of them now have powerful connections that will help them rise in status.

Consort. Empress.

Until the emperor breathes his last, and Empress Dowager Fan carries her young son to the throne and rules from behind the curtain.

Xie Yu'an, now a regent minister, kneels at her feet in submission, yet dares to look straight at her: Is she the empress, his elder sister, or his sister-in-law?

But when he turns away, the Grand Tutor Xie Yu'an is impeached. He removes his hat and bows low outside the palace hall, finally waiting for "elder sister" to summon him inside.

Xie Yu'an gazes infatuatedly at that familiar yet unfamiliar face, and at last asks the question that has tormented him for so long. "If I had agreed to marry you back then, would everything have turned out differently?"

Fan Mengniang smiles. "You're just as indecisive as you were back then."

At first, Fan Mengniang wanted to live without worrying about food or clothing.

She carefully served her mother-in-law and secretly seduced her brother-in-law, hoping not to be thrown out on the street.

Later, Fan Mengniang wanted to live in luxury.

She served the emperor with deference and quietly built up her own power, ensuring she wouldn't be cast aside because of her humble origins.

In the end, Fan Mengniang wanted to live with all the power in the court at her command.

She eliminated her rivals and took charge of the government.

Of course she loves Xie Yu'an. He is the courteous gentleman who would drape a padded coat over her in the middle of winter, even when he looked down on her.

But Fan Mengniang must strip him of his claws and fangs, so he can love her with his whole heart, just as she loves him. Just as at the beginning, when he couldn't live without her.

Theme: Never give up in the face of hardship, love life, and find happiness.