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Marriage first, love later / A corrupted puppy who takes what he wants by force
Fang Songyi, Princess Runing of the Great Yong Dynasty, was born with a face that could ruin kingdoms. The emperor's pampered treasure, she had countless admirers at her feet, and her romantic exploits were the talk of the capital.
Her mentor, Shen Que, Marquis of Yang'an, was aloof and abstinent, yet she was determined to drag him down from his pedestal. Cui Lingheng, the dream lover of every young woman in the city, was a man she knew exactly how to handle.
When the princess chose a husband, the city’s nobles and newly distinguished talents were no more than birds waiting to be picked.
Then an imperial decree bestowed her hand in marriage upon Xie Xunchuan, a lowborn general who had once been a stable hand and clawed his way out of a mountain of corpses.
The whole city was in an uproar: Ha, even the young general can't resist climbing the social ladder!
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Xie Xunchuan spent ten years washing away his lowly origins with a body covered in scars.
He entered the palace in splendid robes, wearing a jade crown, only to receive a careless glance from the princess and words dipped in venom:
"Trying to please me?" Her fingertips brushed the peerlessly beautiful male companion at her side. She sneered. "Even the lowliest actor in my household knows better how to serve someone."
On their wedding night, while red candles blazed, she cast him aside like rubbish and spent the entire night at the pleasure quarter, paying a fortune to make a musician smile.
He remained silent, breaking spear after spear in the military camp, his eyes red with churning fury.
Lately, Fang Songyi had been feeling irritable.
Her usually obedient male companions were making a scene and blocking her door to confess their feelings. The musician she had taken a liking to had, by the next day, "accidentally" broken the hand he played the zither with.
And her husband watched it all at his leisure.
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The emperor grew suspicious, and Xie Xunchuan was stripped of his military command. The princess was implicated in a treason case, and overnight the noble family fell from grace and was exiled to the frontier.
Though they lived in bitter cold, rumors spread like wildfire: Cui Lingheng stayed by the fallen princess's side, their old love rekindled as they whispered and cuddled together.
One night, torrential rain poured down. Gravely wounded, Xie Xunchuan dragged his battered body a hundred miles and stormed into that prison.
Flickering candlelight revealed the princess and Cui Lingheng sitting close together.
Like a demon from the depths of hell, drenched in blood, he seized Fang Songyi by the chin for the first time and forced her to look into his eyes, blazing with fury:
"Princess... There are too many people in your eyes." His voice was hoarse, his burning breath scorching the side of her neck. "From now on, you may only have eyes for me."
Fang Songyi said nothing. Her pale fingers curled around his battle robe.
He punished her for the entire night.
[Reading Guide]
1. The female lead is not a virgin, but the male lead is.
2. The female lead is not a strong, independent heroine.
Theme: The green hills seem so charming to me. I imagine they must see me the same way.
