The Crown Prince Stole His Bride, Only to Find a Beautiful, Strong, and Tragic Loyal Dog

The Tragic, Powerful Crown Prince Steals His Friend's Wife (A Tender, Devoted Version)

Gentle, steadfast ray of sunshine x tragic, powerful mad-dog loyalist x gentle, devoted golden retriever husband

[Blurb]

Lu Yi'an was sent to Chang'an as a hostage at the age of eight. For ten years, nothing he wished for ever came to pass.

So he severed himself from desire and stopped hoping for anything. He even hid his true nature, pretending to be a spoiled playboy.

Then one day, his friend's fiancee gently yet forcefully broke into his long-sealed heart.

In those limpid eyes, like autumn waters, there was room for no one but his friend.

For the first time, he had something he wanted: those eyes could hold only the image of him, Lu Yi'an, from now on.

"A Yuan, you love me, don't you?"

"A Yuan, love me, won't you?"

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Song Changyue dies in the modern world and transmigrates to ancient times, where she is saved by a masked man.

Her new life comes with a distinguished family background and doting parents. She was born with a face as beautiful as a lotus, famed throughout Chang'an, and the young general she is about to marry is her savior.

Only on her wedding night does she realize she mistook someone else for her savior.

She has never been one to shortchange herself. She didn't marry the young general to repay a debt. She truly loves him.

She tells her husband that when they find her savior someday, she will thank him properly.

Before long, the notorious playboy hostage Lu Yi'an becomes Crown Prince and defies propriety to steal his friend's wife.

In the Eastern Palace bedchamber, the red curtains billow. As Song Changyue struggles, her hand finds the scar behind his ear.

So he was her savior? "It was you?"

Lu Yi'an pins her hands down, forcing their fingers to intertwine. His voice is hoarse. "It was me, A Yuan. How are you going to thank me?"

It takes her a long time to realize: how does he know what she told her husband on their wedding night?

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[Lu Yi'an's love is always unmistakable]

"I could have borne the darkness, if I had not seen the sun." -- Emily Dickinson

Reading Guide:

@Both the female lead and male leads have never been with anyone. The female lead has a marriage in fact with the second male lead, a gentle, devoted golden retriever husband.

@A bittersweet unrequited-love story from the male lead's perspective. He shifts freely between a sweet, devoted puppy and a mad, loyal wolfdog.

@A battlefield of male rivals. Both the male lead and second male lead are devoted to the female lead in body and soul. They both adore her.

@Not an empowering female-lead power fantasy. The male lead suffers, but he likes being tormented by her and has no limits when it comes to her.

@A faux forced-possession story with no torment for the female lead. Everything is because "he really loves her so much."

@This novel is set in a partially fictional world, with the setting, official system, clothing, and so on based on the early Tang dynasty. Please don't nitpick the details.

[Coming Soon: "The Regent's Endless Pursuit of His Wife in Two Lifetimes"]

[A sinister regent, whose mouth is second only to his pride in stubbornness, loves her dearly but won't admit it x a radiant noblewoman who is a natural at training dogs]

[He loved her beyond measure, but only realized it too late, and she never knew.]

[A sea of hate (and love) vast as the sky: After all the hatred, all he truly hates is that she doesn't love him.]

Qin Yizhen was hit by a car and lay unconscious in the hospital for three months.

During that time, she had a long dream. In ancient times, she and a man named Xu Hui were childhood sweethearts, betrothed since birth, sworn enemies, lovers who fought and loved, and then she ran while he chased her...

The dream had every trope imaginable. She regretted reading so many novels, since even her dreams were this melodramatic. But everything felt so real that she wondered if she had transmigrated.

Then she woke up in the hospital. Before she was even discharged, Su Zhengxing, a powerful and influential man, fell for her. He was devoted and tender, and his looks and personality were exactly her type, as if he had been made just for her.

If the Su family weren't one of Jiangcheng's best-known wealthy families, she'd have suspected she was being set up for a scam.

She asked Su Zhengxing whether it had all been transmigration or just a dream. The man holding her smiled indulgently. "Zhenzhen, it was just a dream."

Curled up in his arms, she didn't see the darkness in his eyes, or the rare trace of panic...

[The Male Lead's Blurb]

Xu Hui fell for Qin Yizhen at first sight. He was only eleven years old then. From that moment on, she was all he ever saw, and he devoted himself to waiting for the day he could marry her.

However, a year before their wedding, Qin's father brought ruin to the Xu family. Xu Hui alone was left, his fate unknown.

Qin Yizhen was betrothed to someone else. On her wedding day, Xu Hui had already helped the Emperor ascend the throne and risen to the highest ranks. He personally led troops to raid the Qin family.

Xu Hui abducted Qin Yizhen, still dressed in her wedding gown, to a private room at the government entertainment house. Every night, he had his way with her.

Xu Hui hated the Qin family to the bone and thought he'd kill Qin Yizhen the next day. Then the next day came, and the one after that. She not only remained alive and well, but Xu Hui treated her like royalty.

On his birthday, they shared a bowl of longevity noodles. He thought the noodles she had made by hand contained her sincere feelings, never guessing they contained poison she had added herself...

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Three years later, Qin Yizhen is ready to marry someone else, but Xu Hui finds her again.

Seeing the red mark disappearing beneath the collar at her neck, he looks furious. He grips her wrist and traps her in his arms. "A Li, are you getting married again? Why didn't you ask whether I agreed?"

Yet he cannot stop himself from lowering his head to her neck and possessively leaving his mark over those red smudges.

After a whole night of tumult and passionate entanglement, her fiance comes looking for her.

Xu Hui sits beside their wedding bed, caresses her face, and sneers. "A Li is exhausted from last night and still asleep. She won't see you off."

He swings his sword at the man, but blood wells from Qin Yizhen's chest...

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1. I'm terrible at writing blurbs, so basically this is a story of love and hate, with lovers who fight each other. They really do kill: the female lead does it on purpose, while the male lead does it by accident.

2. The male and female leads share a special empathic bond. The female lead stays clear-headed and independent, the kind of woman who could kill the male lead with her own hands.

3. The male lead has never been with anyone and is devoted to her in body and soul.

4. I started writing on Green River because I dislike novels that torment the female lead, and I think some stories about winning back a wife don't make the male lead suffer enough. The male lead does restrict the female lead's freedom early on, but he also spoils her to no end. It won't last long before he is thrown into a blazing fire of regret, where he'll suffer in body and soul.

Message: Every step in life matters.