A notorious, aloof beauty x a cool-headed woman determined to stay alive
Chen Shuhua comes from a wealthy family and is stunningly beautiful. She travels alone aboard a merchant ship to the capital in search of her relatives, and before long, marries the capital’s most notorious tyrant.
Everyone mocks her for her mysterious background, wondering how she managed to become the Marquis’s wife. Only Chen Shuhua knows that the marriage was arranged through deception while she had lost her memory.
Half a year earlier, pirates attacked her ship. A frosty-looking man wielding a long sword fought skillfully against four pirates, holding his own. But someone was quietly creeping up behind him.
Chen Shuhua looked at the burly man in front of her and swallowed nervously. She was about to run when she tripped. Looking down, she saw a severed arm!
She immediately blacked out and collapsed right at the man’s feet, blocking the pirate’s attack.
Before she passed out, she clearly saw the shock and confusion in the man’s eyes.
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Half a year later, Chen Shuhua had lost her memory and become the wife of a marquis in the capital. The marquis was arrogant and cold by nature, treating human lives like toys in his hands and showing no mercy to anyone. Yet he cherished his wife as if she were a priceless treasure.
As the man played the qin and arranged her hair, Chen Shuhua looked at him and murmured, “My lord, I think everyone outside must be blind.”
The man, as bright and gentle as the moon, smiled and carefully tucked a hairpin into her hair. “As long as you love me, my lady, that’s all that matters.”
He took her hand and leaned down to ask, “What would you like to hear today?”
One day, a young man in blue robes shouted outside the residence, claiming that his betrothed had fallen into trouble and been abducted by the current marquis. He had come to find her.
Chen Shuhua rubbed her brow and clutched Pei Yanqing’s clothes. “My lord, who is he talking about?”
Pei Yanqing fastened her cloak and guided her inside, a hand on her shoulder. “Probably some fool here to cause trouble.”
Before long, people discovered that the young man in blue had been poisoned mute and blinded, then thrown outside the city.
That night, Chen Shuhua’s head throbbed unbearably. She grabbed Pei Yanqing by the collar and demanded, “That man today really was my...”
Pei Yanqing took off his shirt, a smile in his narrow, peach-blossom eyes as he waited for her to finish.
Behind his back, his hand held a gleaming silver needle.
She suddenly smiled and kissed the corner of his lips. “He was a fool.”
Pei Yanqing slowly drew close and nuzzled against her. As her cheeks flushed, her long lashes hid the darkness in her eyes.
While he lost himself in the moment, Chen Shuhua quietly tossed away the silver needle he had hidden in his sleeve.
That was close.
Another day alive.
P.S. One-on-one romance. The male lead abducts the female lead and forces her into marriage. She only regains her memories after he brings her to the capital. The reason he took her will be explained in the story.
Theme: For a better life!
