After Escaping My Adoptive Brother, I Caught the Heir Apparent's Eye

Coming soon: My Scumbag Ex-Husband Transmigrated into a Book as a Eunuch. Please add it to your reading list. [A moment of kindness leads to a gloomy male ghost]. Blurb at the end.

[Stoic young general x soft-hearted, strongest support on the battlefield x scheming, calculating prince]

[Hypocritical, scheming prince goes mad for love + childhood sweetheart versus sudden arrival love triangle + coercive pursuit]

Siluosha grew up alongside Shen Di, then became the strongest support at his side in battle.

She never imagined that one day she would choose to leave him of her own accord.

Even after being kidnapped by traffickers, even with death right around the corner, she gritted her teeth and refused to turn back.

The Prince of Ningjiang, who shared her trials and tribulations, was the one who pulled her out of the mire and helped her take control of her own life again.

Like a verdant pine, gentle as jade, he was a principled gentleman rarely found in this world.

Siluosha came to trust and admire him, gradually falling into his gentle trap.

Until Shen Di showed up again, threatening and bribing her, using every means at his disposal to force her home...

The Shen family had been generals for generations, earning countless military honors, until Shen Di's father died suddenly in battle and the family's fortunes declined.

Shen Di inherited the title at a young age, shouldering the family's rise and fall, its honors and its disgrace.

In his bitter, lonely life, the one bright spot was Shen Siluo.

But she had abandoned him for no reason, even falling for the Prince of Ningjiang. How could she?

She wasn't just any insignificant stranger.

She was the foster sister he'd relied on for survival, his comrade through every hardship.

They were each other's only ones in this world, destined to share every joy and sorrow and be bound together in life and death.

The day he found her, Shen Di threw his weight around and mercilessly beat the ailing Prince Ye.

But after suffering one setback after another, he learned his lesson. Trying to break up a couple only ever backfires.

He had a marriage contract as proof, and all the patience in the world to wait for her to come back to him, even if he had to outlive that sickly man.

The Prince of Ningjiang's estate was extravagantly wealthy, but the one thing its heir, Ye Huaizheng, lacked was a healthy body.

Yet it was precisely his frail health that let him keep Siluo close, if only for a little while.

At first, he helped her grow, gave her a place to stay, and played along with her scheme to deceive Shen Di.

Later, he cruelly crushed her budding feelings, hoping she would leave him with no regrets.

But when the siblings finally reconciled, why could she say goodbye to him without the slightest change in expression?

Wasn't he the one she loved? How could she so easily abandon him and resolutely return to Shen Di's side?

Ye Huaizheng regretted it. If that was how things stood, there was no need to keep up the mask of kindness and humility.

He would follow his nature: seize her, claim her, drop the pretense, and scheme at every turn, swearing to keep her in his grasp.

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Reader's guide:

1. Happy ending, both leads are each other's first and only. The male lead and male rival have both kept themselves pure.

2. The characters' entrances don't determine who the lead is. 1v1.

3. The twists keep coming. It's all romantic push and pull, with the sudden arrival and the older brother fighting for her, a battle between strong characters, an ex who rejected her and then regrets it, and a restrained, repressed man who loses control. A light ensemble cast.

Coming soon: My Scumbag Ex-Husband Transmigrated into a Book as a Eunuch. Please add it to your reading list.

A cool, beautiful woman who wants nothing x an easygoing, carefree, straight man x a beautiful, strong, tragic, scheming, gloomy ghost

1

On the day they divorced, Li Xizhu and her scumbag ex-husband transmigrated into a book together.

The good news: Li Xizhu knew this classic romance novel by heart, and fate had a sense of humor. Her free-spirited scumbag ex-husband had transmigrated into a eunuch.

The bad news: Even in the book, her scumbag ex was a powerful, high-ranking eunuch, a man at the top of the pecking order, while she was just a lowly maid in the Cold Palace with no power or influence, living from one day to the next.

Li Xizhu wanted to survive, but her lowly status made every step difficult.

Fortunately, her ex-husband had problems of his own and needed her help.

In a strange foreign world, unable to trust anyone else, the two decided to put their grievances aside and work together to survive within these man-eating palace walls.

2

When his virtuous wife, who followed every rule, suddenly asked for a divorce, Chen Jinyu couldn't figure out what had gone wrong.

But it didn't matter. He was open-minded and generous, respected his wife's choice, and signed the divorce papers without a fuss.

After they transmigrated into the book, Chen Jinyu was the first to accept the situation and adjust his attitude. He encouraged his wife to embrace her new life. After all, if you got to start over, you might as well try something completely new. Otherwise, what was the point of coming here?

His wife gave him a meaningful look, then happily agreed.

At first, Chen Jinyu was as happy as he had imagined he'd be. That was until a young man appeared beside his wife. He was fresh-faced, full of energy, and brimming with life... That was a good thing.

But later, in Chen Jinyu's eyes, the young man became a gloomy bloodsucking leech, using the crude, all-too-familiar tricks men used on women. He shamelessly coveted everything lovely about his wife, and the more he took, the more he demanded...

Chen Jinyu grew restless and uneasy, until he could no longer hold back the murderous rage within him. He wanted nothing more than to kill that ignorant bastard.

Did the young man think he could bully him because he had no official standing and was powerless to act?

Chen Jinyu resolved to reclaim his authority as a husband and win his wife back.

But they were the people closest to each other in this world. Why would his wife rather show mercy to an outsider than forgive him for being a little too carefree?

In the end, all he could do was beg her not to marry someone else.

3

Qi Lingze lost both parents when he was young. He had experienced precious little kindness in this world. After clawing his way out of a mountain of corpses, the only thing he longed for was Li Xizhu's gaze.

He had nothing to offer her, fallen as he was into the mud. All he had was a sincere heart, more useless than anything else, and it was all he could give in return.

But perhaps Li Xizhu didn't need it at all.

He watched in secret, consumed by jealousy as she whispered with the eunuch holding power, and hated the absolute trust between them, whose origin he couldn't understand. He hated being the outsider who couldn't come between them. He hated it.

He wanted Li Xizhu's trust, her dependence, her coyness, her anger, all the feelings she shared with Chen Jinyu that went beyond the ordinary. All her emotions should belong to him alone.

Coveting affection that wasn't his, Qi Lingze was mad with jealousy.

Money, status, power: if he had to climb to the top and take back everything that belonged to him before he could ask for her love, then he would fight and claw his way there, battling Chen Jinyu to the bitter end.

No matter how hard it was, he would take her. He would never give up.

Theme: Make the most of your strengths. Even a humble vine can stand on its own and become strong