I Accidentally Provoked a Powerful Official

◎ A fallen yet resilient beauty VS an ambitious vassal prince

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Xuan Baiwei has beautiful brows and teeth and an elegant, captivating grace, but she is merely the only daughter of a minor official.

A declining family has produced a daughter of unmatched beauty. Her beauty becomes a crime, attracting the attention of a spoiled young master who boasts that he'll snatch her away and make her his eighth concubine.

To escape his clutches, she decides to find herself a powerful protector.

The Heir of Marquis Zhang is upright and dignified, with a prestigious status. Xuan Baiwei makes up her mind to go all in: during a garden banquet, she slips her handkerchief into the Heir's hand.

But the Heir arrives late, his hands empty. Meanwhile, Lord Xiao returns from his stroll with a perfumed handkerchief in his hand, its fabric winding between his fingers like the lush colors of spring.

The powerful minister's eyes are deep. "Miss Xuan, is this the handkerchief you lost?"

Prince Lin'an commands a powerful army, stirring debate throughout the court. After negotiations between several parties, Xiao Chu, the prince's military adviser, returns to the capital on his behalf.

At the garden banquet, the officials watch him like hungry tigers, testing him in every way, determined to strip the fierce tiger of its claws.

Xiao Chu handles them with ease, leaving no opening. He thinks their tricks are nothing special.

As tensions reach a stalemate, a woman suddenly steps forward, claiming that she and the man she loves have exchanged handkerchiefs as a token of their engagement. With tears falling like pear blossoms in the rain, she asks the officials to approve their marriage.

Xiao Chu: ...

Xiao Chu, the man she loves: Heh. Interesting.

From a young noble of Wuling, to an unknown military adviser beyond the border, and then to the Prince of Lin'an, whose power over life and death rules the northern frontier, Xiao Chu has been sustained by overwhelming hatred all along.

Countless times, as the liquor burned down his throat, he pressed a hand to his scorched chest and only then truly felt that he was still alive.

"Then one day, a girl came running with her head down, shoved a handkerchief into my hand without a word, and turned to leave."

"She brought me back to the world."

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Synopsis: "After the Tyrant Abducted Me"

The day the city fell, her father swept up the treasures and banknotes and took his principal wife and legitimate children with him, forgetting only Shen Huaiwan, the inconspicuous daughter of a concubine, shut away in a side courtyard.

Her maids and servants had already scattered to save their own lives. Shen Huaiwan wandered out of the residence, bewildered. All she saw were ruins, flames, and smoke from the battlefield.

And the enemy ruler, Yin Zhenge, mounted on a horse, handsome in appearance but cold and fierce in expression.

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The new emperor of the Sheng Dynasty, Yin Zhenge, personally led his troops to war and won a great victory, capturing a crowd of royal relatives and court officials from the enemy nation. The most eye-catching among them was a beauty with skin like ice and bones like jade.

On the journey back to the capital, the beauty tried to escape.

Yin Zhenge stopped her with ease. Stretching out one long arm, he encircled her slender waist, so delicate it seemed he could hold it in one hand.

The beauty was soft and warm. Suddenly entranced, he leaned in and breathed deeply against her neck.

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Yin Zhenge loves harsh laws and military campaigns. In the eyes of the world, he is nothing less than a tyrant.

That is, until he captures a beauty and brings her back.

After the beauty enters the imperial harem, the tyrant, for once, loses interest in bloodshed and pours all his attention into her.

The court and the people finally breathe a sigh of relief.

But before they can finish exhaling, they hear that the beauty has seized an opportunity to escape.

The widowed tyrant, left alone in his bedchamber, seems... even more terrifying now.

Theme: Stay true to the heart's longing.