After My Nemesis Heard My Inner Thoughts

[Complete] Socially Anxious Sweetheart x Cunning Powerful Official [The blurb for my next book, After a Spring Night with My Nemesis, is at the end] Shen Yan couldn't stand Ning Yuan. Though she was beautiful and graceful, she had none of the bearing of a proper young lady. She was awkward with words and was always secretly mooning over him. Ning Yuan disliked Shen Yan too. Though he was powerful and devastatingly handsome, she always remembered how coldly and arrogantly he treated her. They were sworn enemies, yet their families had arranged a marriage between them since birth. At a palace banquet, someone pushed her into the water. Shen Yan happened to pass by. He saw her struggling and crying for help, but walked away without even looking back. Ning Yuan: What a hypocrite, and what a heartless bastard. T-T But those words of scorn echoed in Shen Yan's mind at the same time. Oh no, what should you do when you can hear your nemesis's thoughts? From then on When Ning Yuan fell ill, she would clutch her quilt and whimper, making so much noise that Shen Yan couldn't concentrate. A female physician would soon arrive at the Ning residence. When Ning Yuan bathed, she would secretly admire her figure, while Shen Yan, far away in his study, would feel his heart set ablaze and his face turn strange. During the spring hunt, Ning Yuan took a liking to a young general at the hunting grounds. Shen Yan could no longer sit still. He got up and walked over to her table. "Ning Yuan, aren't you already betrothed?" Ning Yuan froze with a pastry halfway to her mouth, thinking he was being utterly bizarre. Later, a young woman visited the residence and gently presented Shen Yan's father with an elegant letter. Staring at the unopened letter, Shen Yan did something outrageous in public for the first time. He snatched the letter away and threw it into the brazier. With a cold expression, he said to her: "My engagement isn't yours to break off whenever you like." Ning Yuan thought: Huh? How did he know I wanted to break off the engagement? * Ning Yuan had a secret she kept close to her heart. She had a book called The Grudge Ledger. Whenever someone bullied her, she wrote down their name and imagined how she would get back at them. But she was soft-hearted and timid, so she only dared to imagine it, never act on it. At some point, she was horrified to discover that everything in her grudge book was coming true. She thought Heaven must be especially kind to her, since she was kindhearted but bad with words, and that the people who bullied her were simply getting what they deserved. On their wedding night, she held up The Grudge Ledger to the approaching Shen Yan and declared triumphantly, "I'm warning you, don't even think of bullying me. Otherwise, I'll write your name in here!" Shen Yan, who had heard her thoughts and helped her get revenge: ... He leaned toward her and lifted her chin. Before kissing her, he said, "Go ahead and try." #Surprise! The gentle deity is actually her husband# One-on-one romance, sexually inexperienced leads, happy ending After a Spring Night with My Nemesis Mu Zhao never thought he would hate a woman he had never even met. That woman kept writing steamy romance stories about him and the young ladies of the capital, tarnishing his good reputation as a man who kept his distance from women with a few scandalous rumors. What bothered him even more was that the woman was called Yue Sichaо. Sichao? Could it be a play on his own name, Zhao? Once he learned her name, Mu Zhao felt that everything she did made perfect sense. She was just another woman infatuated with him. She was an unremarkable official's daughter, a mere speck of dust compared with him. Under normal circumstances, Mu Zhao would never have had anything to do with her. But at a palace banquet, while he was changing clothes, she barged in and threw herself at him. * But Yue Sichaо had no interest in Mu Zhao. Her birth mother was timid and out of favor, and the two of them depended on each other to get by in the household. By chance, she once wrote down a romantic dream for her cousin. To her surprise, it soon became wildly popular among the young ladies. Many young women from powerful families were willing to pay a fortune for her stories. She accepted every commission, and at least made life a little easier for her and her mother. But at a palace banquet, Yue Sichaо was set up by her stepmother. She gritted her teeth against the effects of the drug and considered the best way out. In the end, she chose Mu Zhao, a man known for keeping himself pure. ...A cold, arrogant man like him would surely push her away in disgust and find a physician for her, wouldn't he? That was what Yue Sichaо thought as her mind drifted. When she awoke from her drugged stupor, she looked up into a pair of beautiful eyes, then lowered her gaze to see that neither of them was fully dressed. Mu Zhao's eyes were cold, his disgust plain. "Now that things have come to this, I'll give you a title. As for anything else, don't even think about it." Yue Sichaо weighed the pros and cons in her mind, then calmly nodded. "All right." * Mu Zhao had assumed that once Yue Sichaо entered the marquis's household, she would refuse to behave herself and would use every trick she had to seduce him. Instead, she really did keep to herself in her courtyard, spending all day fiddling with her writing. Until one day, Mu Zhao happened to see her personal maid, blushing shyly, hand several sheets of paper to a refined young scholar. After that, Yue Sichaо felt that Mu Zhao had become inexplicably attentive to her... Theme: Understand each other and stand together