[Dark romance/size difference] [Roguish, rugged man x bewitching beauty] [Storyteller x listener]
"Mr. Hua, what are you telling us today? The Ten Tales of the Midnight Hour, or The Heroes of Xijing?"
Incense burned in the golden-winged censer. A silver pick stirred it, and a long stream of smoke curled upward.
I lifted my eyes and glanced at the eager faces of the audience before me, then smiled. "Today, I'll tell a new tale..."
Yaohua was known to everyone as a demon consort who brought ruin to the empire. On the very first night she married the old emperor, she caused his death.
The new emperor was captivated by her beauty and took her into his harem. But less than two years later, he could no longer hold on to his kingdom.
On the day the rebel army besieged the city, everyone discussed how to save their own lives by handing her over to the rebels' leader.
They said the man was crude and savage, with a fondness for tormenting women. He was not yet thirty, but thirteen of his wives had already died.
Yaohua shuddered and was just about to run when she heard that hundreds of thousands of soldiers were massing densely beneath the city walls.
Then pain struck her neck, and someone knocked her unconscious.
When she awoke, she was on a bed.
The gauze curtains fluttered beside it, and on the bed...
The supposedly crude and savage rebel leader braced his arms on either side of her shoulders and neck, gazing steadily at her. The corners of his mouth lifted slightly, his pride tinged with a hint of fierce, wolfish arrogance.
"Reader's guide"
1. The female lead has no sexual experience, while the male lead does.
2. She runs, he pursues. She can't escape, even if she had wings.
3. Seven-year age gap.
Theme: Growth
