Raising a Wolf

[Blurb]

"I am the one you love. We knew each other as children, childhood sweethearts who had no secrets from each other. When you were little, you said you would marry me when you grew up."

"R-Really?"

"Mm. I'm your Brother Yan."

"Brother Yan?"

"Good girl."

Xiao Jingyan's callused hand gently stroked the delicate, soft face of the woman before him. As she gazed at him, innocent and bewildered, the smile at his lips deepened.

He was the Second Prince, exiled in his youth. He had plotted carefully to avenge his mother's family, and sworn to reclaim everything that had once belonged to him.

He had gone to great lengths to trick her into coming here.

Only...

She had lost her memory.

That was for the best.

He could completely rewire her mind and make her his.

Su Shiwei had been a ray of light in his youth. Now that light had fallen into his hands once more, and Xiao Jingyan would never let her go, no matter what.

The Second Prince, who had won repeated military honors in the borderlands, returned to the capital. Clad in silver armor and a battle robe, he was followed by a carriage adorned with pearls and emeralds. He proclaimed that the woman inside was the love of his life.

The Emperor issued an edict granting them a marriage, but no one knew who the woman was. They assumed she was a beauty the Second Prince had met beyond the borders.

That is, until Xiao Jingyan brought his newlywed Princess Consort to the palace banquet.

That day, the Crown Prince went mad, and the assembled officials were stunned.

Xiao Jingyan simply held his beloved wife by the shoulder, a smile on his lips.

Everyone said he had slaughtered countless people and was already a fallen prince who had plunged into the underworld. He was a rakshasa, a demon king, abandoned by his allies and reviled by all. But deep in his heart was a place untouched by darkness, where he kept the girl he loved...

A torrential downpour bent the lush green banana leaves.

Xiao Jingyan stood outside the red-latticed window without an umbrella, gazing at the charming woman inside.

No matter how long he stood in the rain, she would not even look at him.

At dusk, Xiao Jingyan spoke to her through the curtain of rain. "Things have come to this, so we might as well go along with it. We already have a child. Even if you won't think of yourself, you have to think of the little one."

As soon as he finished, the red-latticed window slammed shut from within.

[One-Sentence Synopsis] A shameless male lead schemes and schemes to snatch the heroine away from the second male lead~

[Loyal (Wicked) Hound (Wolf)] X [Clever Beauty]

[Reading Guide]

1. Both leads are each other's first and only partners, and the story is one-on-one. Also known as: Childhood Sweetheart's Daily Descent into Darkness.

2. The male lead is scheming. The heroine regains her memories in the middle to later part of the story, and will put him through the wringer.

3. The scumbag man has to win his wife back the hard way.

Theme: Be brave and keep moving forward~