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One-on-one sweet romance, with the male lead chasing his wife after a painful breakup; marriage first, love later.

Chen Chunhua had lost her memory and was told that she had married the Marquis of Jing'an in the capital.

Her husband was gentle as jade, like a moonlit breeze, and granted her every request.

He said, "My wife is gentle and kind to others, and I'm fairly mild-tempered myself. We suit each other perfectly, and our loving marriage makes us the envy of everyone."

Chen Chunhua was very pleased. She and her husband were affectionate, and their life together was wonderfully comfortable.

One day, a young man in blue robes showed up at the gates, shouting that he was her real fiancé and that the Marquis of Jing'an had abducted her. Before long, people discovered that the young man's tongue had been cut out and his eyes gouged out, and that he'd been dumped outside the city.

Late at night, Pei Yanqing held Chen Chunhua close and brushed the sweat-damp hair away from her temple. His voice was low. "Wife, do you know that man?"

Chen Chunhua blushed, fighting for breath. "N-no, I don't."

Pei Yanqing slowly leaned closer. His long, narrow peach-blossom eyes held not a trace of laughter. All his usual gentleness was gone as he studied her reaction.

Chen Chunhua broke into a smile through her tears, kissed the corner of his lips, and wrapped her arms around his waist again. "He... must be an idiot."

Chen Chunhua had witnessed Pei Yanqing kill her fiancé, and the memories she'd lost came rushing back like a tidal wave.

This man had never been her husband. They had never even met. She carefully navigated life in the estate and gradually discovered that he was mercurial and treated human life as worthless. He was nothing less than a living King of Hell.

He had no genuine feelings for her.

Knowing the waters here were too deep, she couldn't stay any longer. So, under cover of a moonless, windy night, she climbed out of the marquis's estate.

But after walking barely a mile, she spotted her usually "gentle and aloof" husband, his face as cold as frost as he stared at her. His crimson lips were like those of a demon in the dark as he hooked a finger under her chin and asked, "Wife, where do you think you're going?"

Pei Yanqing had only intended to use Chen Chunhua to get revenge. He never expected to sink deeper and deeper into the gentle haven she created, until the mask he'd kept in place for so long finally shattered when she made her escape. He was going to take her back, even if it meant abandoning everything he'd planned.

The Shen Family's Short-Lived One Lives to a Hundred

When Ning An was little, a high fever brought on convulsions, and as she hovered on the verge of death, she suddenly saw the rest of her life.

A small courtyard, strewn with corpses.

A killer advanced step by step, sword in hand.

At the critical moment, a flash of silver cut through the air, and the killer fell beneath a sword.

She turned around, seeing only a hazy silhouette and, on a carriage disappearing into the distance, the faintly visible character "Shen."

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The Shen family had a sickly son named An. At eighteen, after years of illness without a cure, he died far from home.

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Ning An didn't want Shen An to die.

He had saved her life, so he deserved to live a long one.

She was adopted by the Shen family and addressed him as her brother.

When they first met, he sat in the main seat, coughing. Even the casual glance he sent her seemed significant as his eyes tilted at the corners.

That night, Ning An pushed open his bedroom door and told him with righteous conviction, "Brother, let me nurse you back to health."

Who could have guessed that the frail invalid who could barely stand during the day would turn into a man-eating demon at night? With a wicked, ambiguous smile, he asked, "Little sister, are you offering yourself to me?"

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Shen An claimed he wasn't a good person. After all, even his name was fake.

The real Shen An had died in the chaos long ago, leaving not even a body behind. He had merely borrowed Shen An's name and identity to investigate the truth about what happened back then.

Then, quite by accident, he ran into Ning An, who kept finding reasons to get close to him.

He had no idea what the girl was up to, but he couldn't deny that everything she did made him happy.

So later, as she sat in his arms, she made her New Year's wish with heartfelt sincerity.

"Shen An, you have to live to a hundred."

Only then did he realize that the Shen An Ning An loved had always been the one from her visions.

Theme: Live well!