A Bride Sent from North to South

In southern Xinjiang, when Xuan Yi was eight, she became engaged to Gu Jianghuan, the legitimate son of a general's household.

When she was nine, both her parents died. Gu's grandmother took her in and treated her as the future wife of the family's eldest son.

Not long afterward, her fiancé vanished overnight, and no one could find him.

For ten years, she lived on tenterhooks in the Gu household.

Then one day, he returned, a hero who had spent years undercover in northern Xinjiang and brought back vital intelligence.

At his grandmother's urging, the two eventually married. But no matter how hard she tried to please him, he remained cold and distant, avoiding her at every turn.

Word spread that the marriage had never been consummated. Someone plotted against her, and she spent a reckless night with a man. When she woke in bed, she lifted the curtain and softly called her husband's name.

Outside the door, the man's Adam's apple bobbed. His eyes were filled with complicated emotions: desire and guilt, conflict and unwillingness.

What she didn't know was that after much hesitation, he had chosen to save her that night.

While she was out of her senses, she kept calling Gu Jianghuan's name. It grated on him terribly.

After that reckless night, while the girl on the bed still lay unconscious, beautiful as a spring flower, he furrowed his thick brows and pressed his lips close to her ear, replying with resentment:

"I'm not him."

One day, the Gu residence was surrounded, and her husband, returned to her at last, vanished again overnight.

Xuan Yi was also abducted to northern Xinjiang, but was rescued by an old friend from southern Xinjiang.

The south had fallen into chaos, forcing her to stay in the north as the truth gradually came to light.

When she met the "husband" she'd once known again, he was still ethereally handsome, untouched by worldly dust, but his identity had changed entirely.

The moment he glimpsed her in the corner, his pupils contracted.

When he saw her standing shoulder to shoulder with the man beside her, he clenched his fist.

He called to her softly, "Pianpian, come stand beside me."

Betrayal washed over her. She no longer wanted to be his "wife," summoned whenever he wanted and dismissed whenever he pleased.

But he wouldn't let her go. This time, he was the one who would force her to stay, no matter what.

After another night together, she woke to find a strong hand wrapped tightly around her side, as though he feared she might escape.

His low voice sounded beside her ear. "Say it again. Who am I?"

[The cool and aloof yet warm-hearted northern beauty x the clever and sweet southern poison doctor]

Love after marriage, a rivalry among admirers, a groveling romance, and a touch of possessive coercion.

Note:

1. The male lead is not the female lead's fiancé in his true identity! His real name is Beigong Zhi.

2. Happy ending, both leads' first partners. The setting is entirely fictional.

Proceed with caution: The story has plenty of dramatic twists. I'm working to improve the political intrigue.

Coming soon: the possessive romance Hard to Keep Spring's Breeze and the sweet romance Starry Night.

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