Has the Cold and Distant Heir Been Sent to the Crematorium Yet?

Has the Aloof Heir Finally Reached His Breaking Point Today?

Blurb

Young Master Han has always been aloof and noble, with a chilling air about him. He gives everyone three parts courtesy and seven parts distance, making people afraid to approach him.

But only Yue Qingqing knows how terrifying he can be when he loses control.

Every night, she is blindfolded and forced to touch and torment each other in the dark.

Yue Qingqing is merely a distant relative lodging in the Han residence, so distant that even being called "little sister" is too much to hope for.

When the servants mention her, they only say, "She's just some poor relative staying in the remote west wing to mooch off the family."

The old madam decided that she should marry a poor scholar.

The scholar was well educated and had a good chance of achieving great things in the future.

But on the day she was to be married, the usually aloof Young Master Han turned into a demon for the first time. He threatened the scholar's future career and forced him to give up marrying her.

He hijacked her bridal sedan, but was only willing to give her the status of a concubine.

Not even a favored concubine, but the lowest-ranking kind of concubine who had to serve others. How long could a woman who relied on her looks to please a man expect to last?

Yue Qingqing's heart died completely.

She went on a hunger strike and grew thinner by the day.

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Ever since his wife died, Young Master Han has declined every woman's advances. He has only had her name engraved on a tombstone in the rear courtyard.

He is lost and has no desire to live.

The old madam sent people out to search and found a girl who looked very much like her.

She sent the girl to him as a maid.

Young Master Han looks at the familiar yet strange face before him.

He cautiously calls out, "...Yue Qingqing?"

But the young woman only gives him a bewildered look.

So...

She has forgotten everything.

Reader's Guide:

The heir's redemption arc

The heroine has amnesia

The heroine loved the hero before losing her memory, but after losing it, she has no feelings for him at all

One-on-one, happy ending

Angst first, sweetness later; classic melodramatic tropes

Completed historical romance next door

"The Marquis's Wife Keeps Getting Mistaken for His Mistress"

Blurb:

Shen Lan arrives in the capital in a wretched state, carrying a grimy bundle, to find her fiance.

Her fiance is now the Marquis of Yongping, but back then, he was an unknown young man.

She was once a highborn daughter of a princely household, but now her entire family has been burned to death, leaving her the only survivor.

She asks Lou Boxi, "Does our engagement still stand?"

Lou Boxi instead asks whether she has forgotten how coldly and cruelly the princely household broke off the engagement three years ago.

In the end, Lou Boxi acknowledges the engagement, but the price is a private wedding ceremony and a home in a separate residence. The servants all think she is his mistress.

No status, no future.

The day after their wedding, she receives a stack of booklets. He wants her to learn the shameless tricks of a courtesan and perform the Rainbow Skirt Dance to please him.

She endures the humiliation and lives on, all so she can find the real culprit behind her family's murder.

**

The case in which the princely household was framed is finally overturned.

Shen Lan also plans to change her name and vanish, so she will never again have to endure humiliation and play shameless games.

The moment he learns she plans to slip away, the usually cold and cutting young marquis turns red-eyed for the first time.

He grabs her hand and tells her not to go.

He regrets it.

He doesn't know how to make up for all the grievances she has endured over the past year.

Theme: Learn to cherish what you have and be grateful