[Please read the content warnings below the blurb before purchasing.]
In the seventh year of the Deqing era, Jiang Tan sent her friend to death row, where he was to be executed three days later.
The day before his execution, Song Yong escaped and came looking for revenge.
Song Yong laughed. "In every life, even as a ghost, I’ll never let you go!"
Jiang Tan had nightmares all night.
The next day, she watched Song Yong be executed with her own eyes. His blood flowed from the execution platform to her feet.
Jiang Tan thought she could finally rest easy.
But three years later, at the Lu residence in Yangzhou, the eldest young master of the Duke’s household smiled and asked her, "You wrote me love letters for three months, miss. Why can’t you even look at me?"
The eldest young master Lu looked exactly like Song Yong!
Song Yong had come back from the dead!
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Song Yong is cold by nature and swore to kill everyone who had ever humiliated him.
Especially that informant from the yamen who pretended to be his friend, only to send him to the execution platform!
But when he saw Jiang Tan, about to be married, smile sweetly at her fiancé, Song Yong changed his mind.
He suddenly thought of another, very interesting way to get revenge.
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Jiang Tan was terrified of the eldest young master Lu’s face.
But gradually, she discovered that he had been raised in a Buddhist temple from childhood and had never been to Suzhou.
He was born with five fingers on each hand, not six.
He suffered from a strange illness that left him unable to see after nightfall, as helpless as a blind man.
What’s more, he was gentle by nature and had repeatedly saved Jiang Tan from danger.
Perhaps he really wasn’t that man.
So when her fiancé betrayed her, Jiang Tan, acting on impulse, accepted the eldest young master Lu’s proposal.
Until their wedding night
Lu Qingyan grinned. "Jiang Tan, long time no see."
Years ago, in the death cell of the Wujiang County yamen, he had used the same tone when he told her to die.
So all this time, he had been pretending!
###Please read the following guide and content warnings before reading###
[Reading Guide]
1. About the male lead: At first, he appears to be a gentle, scholarly young man, but in truth he is a ruthless, scheming hypocrite who will stop at nothing. Later, he tries to keep the female lead with his body and looks. His ending is pathetically servile, extremely so.
2. One-on-one pairing, both leads have no prior sexual experience. Coercive love (the crematorium tag was removed after readers pointed out it wasn’t appropriate). Readers who require chaste leads, please stay away.
3. There is a point where the story splits into a bad ending. Choose whichever ending you prefer.
4. If you want to skip chapters, refer to the dividing markers in the chapter list.
Other: The blurb was revised on 2024.5.9, 2024.5.23, 2024.6.8, and 2024.7.24.
[Content Warnings]
1. The male lead is a twisted, unhinged bully from a powerful family, with rock-bottom morals. He uses violence to pursue love and resorts to extreme methods.
2. The female lead suffers in the story.
3. The characters’ feelings are twisted by their past. They have tried to kill each other, and their relationship is tangled up in love and hate. This is not a conventional groveling romance, not wish fulfillment, not sweet, and mildly angsty.
4. The overall tone is very dark. The pacing and logic are lacking, but the chapter list has dividing markers. The emotional conflicts are intense. If this isn’t your preferred subject matter, please find something else to read. If you feel uncomfortable while reading, stop in time.
5. This story probably includes every potential red flag associated with the coercive romance genre. If you’re worried about encountering something you dislike, please find another story you’ll enjoy.
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Theme: Learn to love yourself.
Oh my god, I love this book so much. After reading The Wife, I came to read this book, but I like this book even more. The two parts I like the most are the part where Lu Qingyan pursues the heroine to Yancheng, which is very lively and cute, and the other is when the hero is about to die in prison and suddenly asks the heroine how she has been in the past few years, which makes her heart suddenly throb. The author writes a lot of ancient sayings, it's really beautiful. I feel like the author will get better and better as he writes [loving eyes]
Is it so awesome? Both books are so beautifully written.
Run away a lot? [Loading]😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 Come back quickly and continue to write. Why did you run away? Why are you so sad? 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 Come back and continue writing.
Because I read another serial, which really shocked me, so I came to the author's column to find a book to read. I stayed up all day and night to read this book, which really shocked me. I like this kind of character very much. One road leads to the dark side. The male protagonist is completely bad. He will not do good things in the end and then the female protagonist starts to like it. With him, the heroine's character has never collapsed. I'm afraid that the heroine will be indecisive in the end, but our sister hasn't changed from the beginning to the end. Without the thing that the hero is his brother, the hero would really be dead. I like it so much [waving hands] [waving hands] [waving hands] [waving hands]
I would like to ask for more extras about Shanju. The renovated Lu Dog is really cute. The cute family likes it very much. I also miss the cute A Nian very much [Let me be healthy] [Let me be Kangkang] [Let me be Kangkang]
The first half of the green tea before the wedding is really interesting, but the green tea is humble and tastes good.
Will there be a follow-up? I want to see Xiao Song being tortured to death because he fell in love with King Jiang 5555555
'Ah ah ah, well written in big letters, it fulfills my female A male O's wish [rose][rose][rose][rose][rose]
It's so funny to think of them cosplaying 😆
Sister and brother's love story [plus one] looking forward to it 😍