As her father was leaving the capital, the young marquis who met Xin Yan at the city gates nodded and said, “My surname is Yu. My given name is Xuzhou: Yu Xuzhou.”
At the time, she was about to fall into the clutches of her wicked stepmother.
So when she met Yu Xuzhou, who seemed polite but was actually a hypocrite, she thought, My chance has just walked right through the door.
From then on, Xin Yan set her sights on becoming the young mistress of the marquis's household, determined to find herself a husband.
In the end, things went exactly as she hoped. Five years later, when her father returned to the capital and the emperor publicly announced her betrothal to Yu Xuzhou, she replied with delight, “Your subject is willing!”
At the time, Xin Yan thought the emperor's decree was the successful result of her own matchmaking efforts. Little did she know she had merely leapt into another abyss.
The political marriage, the imperial decree: everything seemed like a gift from heaven, everything seemed to have been planned long ago, and everything seemed to be turning on the loom of fate...
Just as the marquis's household was on the brink of ruin, Yu Xuzhou brought up divorce. The good marriage she thought she had arranged for herself had turned out not to be safe at all...
“We may have no choice but to divorce.”
“What did you say...?”
“This is to protect your life in case anything happens. But you mustn't marry anyone else, and you mustn't fall in love with another man. If you ever change your heart...”
“What will you do if I do?”
“Then we'll have no choice but to become husband and wife again in the underworld.”
“And what if you're the one who changes your heart someday?”
“Then kill me. Skin me alive, slice me a thousand times, and throw me to the dogs.”
[This novel is also titled A Scheme for Peace.]
Reader's Guide:
* A sweet-on-the-outside, dark-on-the-inside, shamelessly henpecked young marquis × a strong-minded, clear-eyed, bold general's daughter.
* Both virgins. They start out using each other, then their pretense becomes real.
* The hero doesn't appear as a yandere at the start. He goes from a pure and bright young man to a yandere with a sweet exterior and dark interior, gradually forced into it. Yu Xuzhou is the classic sweet-on-the-outside, dark-on-the-inside type: extremely good at pretending, shamelessly performative, and devious to the core.
* Happy ending. A young married couple, no second female lead or rivalry between women, a little rivalry between men, and a second male lead.
* Set in a fictional feudal dynasty with no historical model. There are many original elements, so it's not recommended for readers who want to nitpick the history.
Theme: Life takes many forms, and everyone has their own loves, hatreds, and sorrows.
My wife's writing is very good, but the plot structure still needs work. 🥺 The crisis at the beginning ended abruptly, and it would be great to continue writing. But suddenly the story changed to the story of the marriage between the male and female protagonists, and the process of getting married (although there are additional storylines about the male and female protagonists' respective characters and backgrounds, but too much explanation makes it seem lengthy.) Judging from these chapters, there is only one scene taking place, which seems very slow (the scene does not refer to the change of environment and location, but the change of the heroine's mental journey) I think the first few paragraphs are good. It would be better if my wife could continue it and intersperse the past little by little. Keep up the good work! 💪 💪 💪
It turns out that Yan Xuning has always been causing trouble regarding the medicine.
Ah, that's it!! I haven't seen enough, the plot is really good and interesting!! Come on, madam!!!
The heroine's father is very good, and he also feels sorry for the heroine. Especially when he said that he regretted that day, but the heroine could still find her, I really cried to death!!
The plot and setting are so interesting, so the male protagonist still likes the female protagonist, but he just didn't realize it himself. From this point of view, the two of them are still very good 🥺.
Wow ah ah, this setting is so interesting?? I'm so curious about what happened between the heroine and the hero. I'm so curious [EYE][EYE][EYE]. I just feel so sorry for the heroine. She has been alone with her brother for 5 years at such a young age, but I just don't know what her stepmother and father are like? I feel like the plot setting is very good!! Like it!!
"Bao" is a big thorn in the side of the author~ cells
I have been following this novel and am looking forward to the development of the storyline.
Maybe there will be some jumps in the timeline when writing, and there will be some obstacles in reading, but it can be seen that DaDa has laid clues, although I feel that I still don't understand it very well 😂. Are you planning to write a long novel?
Is it poorly written? Why, no one commented...