Has General Xie Gone to the Crematorium Today?

*The blurb for the upcoming novel Has Prince Jin Realized He's a Substitute? is at the very bottom~

Blurb:

Mu Rongyue was the only daughter of the Grand Princess, born into privilege and raised in luxury. Yet she fell hopelessly in love with her guard, Xie Xianfeng.

Xie Xianfeng was handsome but cold and distant.

After Xie Xianfeng was promoted to young general, her imperial uncle arranged a marriage for her. Despite the vast difference in their status, she married down without hesitation, believing he would be moved by her devotion.

For two years after their wedding, he treated her with icy indifference. Every year, he stayed away on their wedding anniversary.

She thought he simply didn't know how to love.

Mu Rongyue, who had never lifted a finger around the house, gradually began cooking for her husband. The pampered young lady learned to be a good wife and win her husband's affection.

Then the old General Mo fell into disgrace. Xie Xianfeng left her, weak and pregnant, and knelt outside the imperial hall for three days and nights, all to clear Mo Ying'er, who was imprisoned, of the charges against her.

He burned the family letter she'd sent him and blurted out in anger,

"If not for her, I would already have married Ying'er, and the Mo family would never have come to this."

Only then did Mu Rongyue understand.

His coldness and indifference had been reserved for her alone.

Love came naturally to him.

At last, Mu Rongyue was exhausted. She left him a letter of divorce.

"Xie Xianfeng, you're free."

She would no longer try to melt the ice that refused to thaw.

Years later, they met again at an elegant tea gathering for the royal family and nobility. They raised their cups and exchanged smiles and pleasantries.

She had become the esteemed wife of the Duke of Song, while he had never married and remained alone.

After the banquet, in a dark, deserted corner, Xie Xianfeng's eyes reddened. His voice hoarse, he said, "Every day since you left, I've been looking for you."

She smiled sweetly.

"You were just a pet bird I kept in my spare time to amuse myself. How did you end up taking it seriously?"

Years ago, when Xie Xianfeng had signed and sealed that divorce agreement, he never imagined that his former wife, once willful and naive, whom he'd treated as though she didn't exist, would one day become the cinnabar mark in his heart.

She would make him suffer day after day for a love he could never have, until at last he willingly worshipped her as a deity and bowed to her.

#He Regretted It After My Heart Had Turned to Ash

#Jealous Rivals Fighting for Her, While the Heroine Trains Her Dogs

Detailed content warnings after revision, version 4.0:

☆The male lead is sexually inexperienced, while the female lead is not. (After revision.)

☆The supporting female character's father is the male lead's benefactor. The male lead has no romantic feelings for her, and they will never be together.

☆Later, the heroine will marry a second time to a supporting male character and fall in love with someone else. The male lead will only ever be married to the heroine.

☆The groveling arc is at level ten. The male lead's suffering is roughly a multiple of the heroine's.

---Upcoming novel: Has Prince Jin Realized He's a Substitute? Please add it to your favorites---

There was a dissolute prince in the capital. Though handsome, he was violent-tempered, and nobody dared provoke him.

His power was absolute. He could take a life with a wave of his hand. A matricide and fratricide, he was a demon everyone feared.

One day, while hunting in the forest, Prince Jin encountered a barbarian woman of unknown origin.

She was petite and delicate, but unlike everyone else, she didn't cower at the sight of him. She stared straight at him. "I only wish to stay by Your Highness's side and make you happy."

At first, Prince Jin paid her no mind.

But she refused to give up. To see him, she knelt before his palace through the blazing summer heat, even collapsing from the scorching sun. To make him smile, she went into the river to catch fish in winter, freezing until her skin turned blue and purple.

Later, when Prince Jin was poisoned, Shen Yuan did everything she could to pray for his recovery.

Prince Jin mocked her. "Would you die for me?"

Shen Yuan raised and dropped her knife without hesitation, cutting out blood from her heart to use as an ingredient in the antidote.

"I only wish for Your Highness to be happy."

As Prince Jin gazed at Shen Yuan, pale as a sheet and on the brink of death, his heart finally wavered.

After recovering, Prince Jin married Shen Yuan into his household as a secondary consort.

Shen Yuan was merely a lowborn orphan. Becoming a secondary consort was already a great honor. He believed he had treated her well, and that she would be overwhelmed with gratitude.

Until one night, Shen Yuan called out in her sleep, utterly unguarded, the name of his deceased elder brother.

"Bao Yin misses you so much..."

Only then did Prince Jin realize that she had approached him simply because he had a face similar to his brother's.

Years ago, Bao Yin fell in love with the refined and elegant Prince Yuan.

Before she could confess her feelings, Prince Yuan died saving her.

Afterward, she changed her name to Yuan, after him, and secretly entered the capital, all to repay her debt of gratitude.

There she met his maternal half-brother, Prince Jin, who looked seven-tenths like him but had an entirely different temperament.

She treated Prince Jin with kindness in every way for the sake of that resemblance, hoping only to briefly return to her beloved's side.

As Shen Yuan cut out the blood from her heart, she thought that if she could save his younger brother, he would surely be happy in the afterlife.

When he first met her, he hadn't even bothered to remember her name.

Shen Yuan, the crude woman from the barbarian lands. Shen Yuan, as elusive as the wind.

In the end, she became the most venomous love spell in his heart, leaving him unable to have her and driving him mad with longing.

Theme: Cherish the person by your side