A Reborn Concubine's Son Marries Down

[The follow-up novel, A Foolish Love for a Delicate Branch, is now underway. Please add it to your collection!]

Xie Yanxing was born with a distinguished, handsome appearance, yet as a son born of a concubine, he occupied the lowest rung among the young noblemen of the capital.

One day, he happened upon a noblewoman who had deliberately fallen into the water in front of him. Curious, he went to rescue her, and before he knew it, the young woman had latched onto him.

She was of noble birth, yet insisted on marrying him, a son born of a concubine in an earl's household.

After Jiang Ruxue got her wish and married Xie Yanxing, she thought their life together would be blissful and sweeter than honey.

But after they married, Jiang Ruxue watched her once-tender husband gradually change his attitude toward her.

Only when he imprisoned her within those four walls in a fit of rage did Jiang Ruxue realize that her husband had already remembered their past.

In the stillness of night, Xie Yanxing stared at the sleeping woman before him, his bloodshot eyes fixed on her.

His long fingers tenderly stroked her delicate cheek. "Were you going to try to get me killed for Big Brother again?"

Xie Yanxing's eyes were blood-red, his gaze carrying a coldness suppressed beneath the extreme tenderness of old. "I can't bring myself to hurt you, but I may not spare Big Brother."

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Xie Yanxing had loved Jiang Ruxue with all his heart in his previous life. Only after Xie Hengyuan killed him at the edge of a cliff did he learn that Jiang Ruxue had truly played a part in it.

In this new life, Jiang Ruxue once again filled his heart with her through a cruel means.

Now she had the nerve to come to him again, so he would show no mercy. He would bind her to his side and ensure that she and Xie Hengyuan could never see each other again.

Reader's Guide: 1. Both leads are virgins; monogamous 1v1.

2. A highly fictional setting.

3. Later, the heroine will confront the hero about their past life while pregnant. The hero will have to win his wife back.

4. Every plot point in this story serves the male and female leads.

5. A slow burn. The scene featured in the blurb will appear around chapter 54.

Coming soon: Springtime Boudoir Affairs

Shen Jiaojiao was born with skin as fair as ice and bones as delicate as jade, and was extraordinarily beautiful. Yet she was a country girl, unloved by her biological parents.

She thought she would have no choice but to pick a man in the countryside and spend her life with him, until scandal struck the bride-to-be of the Hedong Pei clan. An imperial edict summoned Shen Jiaojiao back to the capital.

As the head of the Hedong Pei clan, Pei Ju had been raised from childhood to become its future master. He was born with an elegant bearing and handsome looks, and had cultivated a dispassionate nature, desiring nothing but the prosperity of his family.

He should have married a virtuous woman with a fine reputation beyond the home and the ability to manage a household within it. But just as he was about to marry, scandal erupted around his bride-to-be, revealing that two different women were involved in the affair.

At the time, the realm had only just fallen into chaos, and the imperial family had lost its grip on power.

Emperor Mingyang, eager to seize an opportunity, immediately sent people to Hedong upon hearing the news. In secret, they reached an agreement with the current head of the Pei family and sent the young woman, raised in the countryside and lost to the world since childhood, to Pei Ju.

The wedding was grand and splendid, yet rumors swirled beneath the surface. Pei Ju was naturally displeased with his new bride.

Night after night, she pressed herself against him, hoping to share his bed, but he always turned her away.

Until one day, her close male cousin came from the countryside to visit. Pei Ju watched as the woman treated him just as she treated Pei Ju himself, then joyfully rushed past him to another man and, nestled in the man's arms, told him how much she had missed him. Pei Ju went completely mad.

On a dark night when thick clouds hid the moon, Pei Ju held her in the palm of his hand, meeting her gaze with bloodshot eyes. He forced out words that made her unbearably ashamed, one by one.

"Shen Jiaojiao, you are my wife, and the person who will share my grave a hundred years from now. Now that you're being so intimate with another man, tell me, how should I punish you?"

Reader's Guide: 1. The emperor's power has waned, and the great clans reign supreme.

2. An extremely fictional setting.

Coming soon: Spring's Captive Beauty

Si Luyao is the legitimate daughter of the Marquis of Yuanning's household. When her family falls from power, her father is killed and her older brother goes missing.

To learn her brother's whereabouts, Si Luyao breaks free of the protection she once relied on and throws herself into the arms of the crown prince.

But her scheme is soon exposed, and Li Yancheng imprisons her in a magnificent palace.

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When the rebel army entered the city, Si Luyao remembered all the schemes she'd once plotted against the new emperor and shuddered. She hurriedly packed her belongings and prepared to flee the palace, hoping to save her own life.

But corpses covered the ground outside the palace gates, and rivers of blood ran through the streets.

In her frantic escape, she tripped over a corpse and fell.

She struggled back to her feet, never imagining that...

The palace gates would suddenly swing open, and a horse's hooves would thunder through them.

Li Yancheng rode in, clad in gleaming silver armor. With sharp brows and bright eyes, a strikingly handsome face, and a dashing bearing, he looked every bit the conquering hero.

When he reached her, the man dismounted and strode toward her, step by step.

His bloodstained sword pressed against her slender chin, forcing her to look up.

Li Yancheng watched her with a cruel smile, like a savage wolf that had found a favorite prey. His gaze held unconcealed possessiveness and aggression.

"I told you that day: if you betrayed me, the moment I succeeded would be the day you kept company with the hunting dogs."

Li Yancheng had clawed his way out of a sea of corpses to become the new emperor of the Central Plains.

The first thing he did after taking the Central Plains was search for the woman who had tormented his heart and betrayed him by becoming a military strategist for his sworn brother.

In the once-prosperous palace, rivers of blood now ran through the halls.

As he wished, he watched Si Luyao, once known as "the most beautiful woman in the Central Plains," stumble miserably before him.

An army stood ready to surround the entire palace at his command, and she would be the first spoils of Li Yancheng's rise to power.

Gazing at the most beautiful woman in the land, who had betrayed her lord, Li Yancheng sneered.

"The faithless deserve to fall into an endless hell, never to rise again!"

Theme: Cherish the person beside you.