My Childhood Sweetheart Fiancé Came Back from the Dead

My new novel, My Aloof Brother-in-Law Won't Leave Me Alone, is now open for reading. Please add it to your collection!

⭐️ Untouchable beauty goes mad for love | Taking by force | Running away while pregnant ⭐️

[Blurb] Aloof commandery princess x charming young lord

Xu Qinghe had a childhood sweetheart who was also her betrothed. He was accomplished in both literature and martial arts, a brilliant young talent, and the only man she ever considered marrying.

But before they could wed, his family was falsely accused of treason.

Xu Qinghe broke off their engagement without hesitation.

Five years later, determined to uncover the truth behind her parents' deaths, she willingly used herself as a bargaining chip and formed an alliance with the notorious playboy Wei Che, a young lord in the capital.

Who could have guessed that the ever-amorous Wei Che would fall for her in earnest? He defied an imperial decree to force her into marriage, swearing that from then on he would mend his ways and love only her.

At the time, Qinghe was painting. She simply nodded and said, “I know. Off you go and play.”

She had chosen him only because his features bore some resemblance to those of her childhood sweetheart.

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Wei Che was not truly the young lord of the Duke of State Protecting the Nation's household. His real identity was Xu Qinghe's childhood sweetheart and betrothed, who was believed to have died young.

Even though she had once cast him aside like worthless trash, when he learned that Xu Qinghe was going to marry someone else, Wei Che couldn't hold back. He cajoled and deceived her into marrying him.

After their wedding, he was almost unfailingly compliant, hoping only to warm her heart again.

But just as their relationship began to improve, she seemed to discover his true identity.

She fled without a second thought.

[Bonus Scene]

Five years later, they met again at a banquet in their hometown.

He was overjoyed when he finally understood, but she was cold as ice, treating him like a stranger.

Ignoring her wishes, he pinned her against the wall and kissed her deeply, begging her to give him one more chance.

She resolutely tore open the wound on his shoulder until it ran with blood. “Want to start over? Only if I'm dead.”

He thought she was softhearted. If he begged her again and again, surely she'd change her mind.

Until one day, outside a pavilion by the city gate, he shamelessly accompanied her to pick up her daughter.

The little girl glanced at him and asked warily, “Mother, who is he?”

Xu Qinghe's eyes curved as she smiled. “This is Uncle Xie, from your father's family.”

But the little girl's eyes looked exactly like his.

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⭐️ Fantasy setting, no need to fact-check

⭐️ One-on-one romance; both leads are each other's first and only

⭐️ Childhood sweethearts + reunion after a long separation + first love + substitute + marriage before love + identity reveal + running away while pregnant + groveling pursuit + rekindled love. A melodramatic mishmash!!!

⭐️ The novel itself is the final authority

My novel, After a Mistaken Marriage, My Aloof Brother-in-Law Won't Leave Me Alone

⭐️ Untouchable beauty goes mad for love | Taking by force | Running away while pregnant ⭐️

Over 100,000 words drafted, expected to launch in June. Please add it to your collection!!

[Blurb] Charming younger brother's wife x untouchable elder brother

Cui Jingyue had once loved Pei Yu with all her heart.

After a twist of fate led her to become engaged to his younger brother, she boldly threw caution to the wind and stopped Pei Yu in a corner of the garden.

“You and I get along so well. We clearly feel the same way about each other, so why let our families make this mistake and arrange the wrong marriage?” She twisted her handkerchief in her hands and looked at him with tear-filled eyes, her voice full of sorrow.

Pei Yu merely turned his gaze away indifferently. His reply was a lecture. “Since Third Miss has agreed to marry Sixth Young Master, she should wait for the wedding in peace. What you're doing now violates a woman's virtue and is utterly improper.”

Cui Jingyue came to hate him. She turned around and married Pei Liulang.

Three years into their marriage, she had yet to bear a child, and her mother-in-law wanted to take a concubine for Liulang. Just then, Pei Yu returned from the border.

Inside the house, her husband was chatting warmly with another woman.

Outside, Cui Jingyue sat in a pavilion watching the fish, her face downcast. When she looked up, she saw Pei Yu, travel-worn, stop outside the pavilion in his red official robes.

His old injury had flared up and his face was deathly pale, but he had hurried all the way there to ask her:

“Jiaojiao, Liulang treats you badly.”

“Leave him. I'll marry you, all right?”

Cui Jingyue froze, then smiled.

A cold smile.

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Pei Yu had been brilliant since childhood and made a name for himself while still young. He had risen to the highest ranks of the court, but was always cold and aloof. He was a flower blooming on an unreachable cliff, a handful of snow atop a mountain peak, impossible to touch. People admired him from afar, but kept their distance up close.

Even the most unruly younger members of his clan behaved like timid quail around him.

Yet one day, by the lake at the foot of a cliff, a bloodstained young woman grabbed his sleeve and begged him to save her. During the days she spent recovering, she ordered him around as if he were her servant.

At first, he thought: This woman could be very useful. I should coax her along slowly. I can put up with her for a few days.

Later, he thought: Our families aren't well matched, so I can't make her my wife, but I can take her as a concubine.

Later still, his younger brother Liulang fell deeply in love with her and insisted he would marry no one else.

Pei Yu thought: She's just a woman. What does it matter if I give her to Liulang?

He didn't care.

And yet, after returning to the capital, he was the one who used every means at his disposal to separate her from Liulang, then did everything he could to obtain an imperial marriage decree.

But she cursed him, beat him, and even tried to kill him on their wedding night.

So he pinned her to the bed, clasped her delicate wrists, tore her clothes, and lowered his head to kiss her, possessively claiming her day and night.

He thought that if he kept her imprisoned by his side, she would love him again someday.

Until one day, she suddenly vanished.

That same day, his younger brother, who should have been locked in prison, disappeared as well.

Pei Yu crushed the cup in his hand and coldly ordered his men to burn down her bedroom.

She's just a woman. What does it matter if she ran off with my younger brother?

He didn't care.

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But she was gone for five years.

It was only on the border, five years later, that he finally ran into her on the street.

By then, she had remarried and borne another man's adorable little girl. The three of them were a happy family, the envy of all who saw them.

He still didn't care. He merely walked past the family with a cold, stern expression.

[Bonus Scene]

In a secluded courtyard after their reunion, the two of them tangled together once more.

After the passion had subsided, Cui Jingyue's eyelids drooped. Half-asleep, she heard the man in front of her say something.

She suddenly opened her eyes and kicked him. “Say that again?”

Pei Yu's face tightened, but he repeated himself.

When Cui Jingyue heard him, she laughed.

She jerked her chin toward the side of the bed. “Go over there, get on your knees, and say it again.”

A hint of annoyance appeared on Pei Yu's face.

But Cui Jingyue only looked at him and smiled smugly.

Pei Yu pondered for a moment. His face shifted from pale to dark, then red, before finally returning to normal. At last, he put on his robe, straightened his clothes, and awkwardly knelt before the bed.

“Jiaojiao, I can let bygones be bygones, and I'll treat the child you had with another man as my own.”

“Leave him and come back to me, all right?”

On the disheveled bed, Cui Jingyue sat up and leisurely gathered her fallen clothes. Her flushed face lifted slightly. With her foot, marked by the clear imprints of teeth, she gently raised the man's chin and looked down at him.

“Fine. Marry into my family, and I'll agree,” she said with a smile.

For the exalted head of the Pei family, this was surely an insult, a cruel joke. He would hesitate, refuse, fly into a rage.

Yet he agreed with a cold expression.

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⭐️ Untouchable beauty goes mad for love, taking by force, groveling pursuit, running away while pregnant ⭐️

⭐️ Over 100,000 words drafted, expected to launch in June ⭐️

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