My Cousin Is Exquisitely Beautiful

A young lady cousin from the second branch of the Duke of Guo's household arrived from Yangzhou to seek refuge with them. They say she is breathtakingly beautiful, with lovely brows and delicate features, and plans to find a husband in the capital.

One day,

The young lady cousin stumbled into the arms of the legitimate heir of the duke's first branch, Pei Yanshi, looking utterly flustered.

Used to all sorts of women throwing themselves at him, the young master Pei took her for a woman trying to seduce him and climb the social ladder. He pushed her away expressionlessly.

“Cousin, please behave yourself!”

Another day,

As Pei Yanyu practiced his sword, he repeatedly saw that lovely cousin, as precious as a jewel, standing by a carved window in the bitter winds and snow of the twelfth lunar month, wearing only thin undergarments.

The wind lifted the hem of her clothes, revealing a glimpse of her slender waist, so pale it seemed to outshine the frost and snow.

Young Master Pei's eyes darkened. “A little vixen!”

Everyone said Young Master Pei was chaste and kept his distance from women, but Pei Yu alone knew the truth. Ever since the day he caught sight of that snow-white, slender waist, he had dreamed of it every night.

His dreams were filled with that glimpse of the exquisite, snow-white waist of his cousin from the Rong family!

At fifteen, Rong Wu had grown into a stunning beauty and could have married a fine husband. Unfortunately, her mother had died young, and her heartless father, manipulated by her vicious stepmother, planned to marry her off as a secondary wife to a salt commissioner nearing forty who already had a household full of concubines. Alarmed, Rong Wu packed her belongings and headed straight to the capital to seek her aunt's protection.

But after arriving in the capital, she kept having strange dreams.

In one dream, the Prince of Beiping took a fancy to her at first sight and had her carried into his manor in a sedan chair in the middle of the night. But that very night, the Prince of Beiping was executed for treason, and his household was confiscated...

Terrified, she did everything she could to avoid meeting the Prince of Beiping. At last, that night came: the Prince of Beiping's household was confiscated, and he died in a fire. She thought she was safe.

Then she dreamed that, after becoming the Prince of Beiping's concubine, she was rescued by her cousin from the Pei family, who had been ordered to confiscate the prince's household. But Cousin Pei was no good either. He immediately forced her to become his mistress.

So Rong Fu began looking for ways to avoid this cousin Pei, who was clearly not to be trifled with and was not going to die anytime soon.

Pei Yanyu realized that the cousin who was always trying to seduce him had suddenly started avoiding him.

He scoffed. “Playing hard to get!”

But one day, he suddenly heard that his cousin from the Rong family was about to be betrothed. His face changed, and at last he cornered the young woman on her way home, grabbing her slender, jade-like wrist. “Come with me!”

“Cousin, please behave yourself.” Rong Wu pulled her hand back and replied solemnly with the very words he had once said to her.

Theme: Sincerity, a true heart, true love, and genuine affection.