*An unconventional take on a coercive romance
Wild, sickly obsessive, and possessive, with forced love x a frail, sickly beauty who breaks at the slightest touch
Blurb:
In 2008, Wen Chang'an died on a mountain path, on her way to burn incense and pray to Buddha.
When she was alive, there was a man who took her by force.
Wen Chang'an gasped for breath with every step, then lay down listlessly. "Take me, then. Do whatever you want."
The man who took Wen Chang'an by force was named Chi Yin.
He had no connections or parents, and had clawed his way up from the bottom.
Sickly and obsessed, he spent six whole years wresting Wen Chang'an from the wealthy Wen family.
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On the night before she died, she looked at the man who guarded her without leaving her side, refusing to sleep.
At last, unable to hold back her confusion, she asked him:
"You paid any price and took me by force. What exactly were you trying to take?"
Her frail body?
What could he even do with it once he had it?
Wen Chang'an could faint just from lying down, let alone handle any strenuous activity.
The man had plotted for ages and gone to great lengths to take her from the Wen family, yet he didn't dare touch her with even a finger. She really would break at the slightest touch.
Instead, he spent a fortune and poured resources into trying to keep her alive, treating her like a Bodhisattva and worshiping her.
Later, when even the best doctors could do nothing, he turned to the ethereal gods and Buddhas.
He built temples for her, offered incense, and lit eternal lamps.
He donated to charity for her, and Chang'an schools sprang up all over the country.
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In the mountain temple at the start of spring, flowers bloomed as far as the eye could see.
When Wen Chang'an saw a black arrow speeding toward them through the trees, a burst of strength surged from somewhere inside her frail, powerless body. She threw herself toward the man with the quickest reaction of her life.
As she softly fell, she glimpsed the man's eyes, red as blood and shrouded in mist.
When she saw the flowers of the other shore, she thought hazily:
He had schemed for so long to take her, but could never enjoy the fruits of his labor.
She had to repay him somehow...
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When Wen Chang'an woke again, she was in a remote mountain village cut off from the world.
A backward, ignorant place in the mountains, with no way out.
It was now 2012, and her name was Xu Shanwu.
A university student who had just been kidnapped...
Wen Chang'an: "..."
What was that man's phone number and QQ account again?
He must be thirty now, right?
#The person he spent everything to take by force was sickly
#The sickly beauty he took was broken
#The broken sickly beauty was reborn
#The reborn sickly beauty crossed mountains and rivers, exhausting every effort to find him
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[Blurb captured on 2024.5.22]
Theme: At the heart of forcing someone to love you is a plea
