[New story now open: The Companion Bride Who Was Forced to Become a Bedchamber Maid is a sister story to this one, with a heroine of a different temperament and a forceful, possessive romance. Please add it to your collection!]
[Coming soon: 1. Reborn: This Time, I Won't Be a Top Student, a rebirth story set at school
2. I Became Empress in Troubled Times, from mutual affection to forced love
[Completed: I Was a Supporting Character in the Celestial Realm, a xianxia story. Visit the author's page if you're interested.]
Synopsis:
Su Huixue transmigrates into the body of Su Yunxue, an unloved concubine-born daughter of the Earl's household. Bullied by her stepmother and two legitimate elder sisters, she is fortunate to have a wealthy merchant fiancé, Meng Xingzhou, who truly cares for her.
Su Yunxue decides to keep a low profile and endure until her wedding. After that, she and Meng Xingzhou can sail overseas to trade and enjoy their freedom. But fate has other plans. After an accident, Su Yunxue is framed and left alone in a room with her elder sister's fiancé, Prince Rong, Xiao Huanyan.
A legitimate grandson of the late emperor, Xiao Huanyan is the most honored prince in the realm. After being drugged, he accidentally encounters Su Yunxue and assumes she deliberately set him up. To punish and humiliate her, he orders her to become his secondary concubine and enter the prince's residence alongside her elder sister.
As a modern woman, Su Yunxue is unwilling to become a concubine or share a husband. What can she do? Run.
No matter how many times she escapes, Xiao Huanyan catches her and threatens her with her fiancé's life and fortune.
Su Yunxue had thought that if she kept her head down, no one else would suffer because of her. Yet Meng Xingzhou is indirectly killed all the same.
Under the thumb of the powerful, even dignity and selfhood are impossible to preserve. The person she wanted to protect dies overseas, with no remains ever found.
If she can't escape, then she won't run anymore. But Xiao Huanyan, you'll pay with your life!
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Xiao Huanyan has spent his life practicing patience and plotting in the shadows. To him, wives and concubines are merely pieces in his contest with the emperor, people who will ultimately submit to his power and be tamed. But when Su Yunxue kneels before him, her face full of anguish, and says, “I accept my fate,” his usually cold, unyielding heart aches with a sudden, tight pang.
Core tropes: forceful, possessive romance; the hero's long road to winning her back
Content warning: In keeping with the characters and plot, neither lead is a virgin. Please don't read if this bothers you.
Theme: Never give up hope, no matter what.
The scumbag is ready to kill her. He talks about his true love for the heroine, but doesn't even give her her true identity. Isn't it because he is afraid of his bad reputation? They talked about compensating the heroine to compensate the Meng family, but actually monitored and forced the heroine, and did not publicly apologize to the Meng family. Stop fucking, just let the heroine fuck, the scumbag can do it
Spread flowers, finish spreading flowers. This ending is good. I once read a book where the male protagonist refused to let go. In the end, the female protagonist also had a hard time and planned revenge. I liked the big ending.
The heroine has gone to the cold palace. Meng Xingzhou may not be dead. Only in this way can the hero and heroine get back together.
Both the male and female protagonists are bad. I hope that the female protagonist can take revenge and return to modern times. This is a group of lunatics. The heroine is a normal person, but she is driven crazy even after eating breakfast.
Haha, the plot is getting more and more "crazy"
Why is Aunt Cui so embarrassed? The heroine just wants to protect the people she wants to protect, and wants to take revenge on the people who harmed her. I really hope that the male protagonist will fall down hard
It was so frustrating to watch, as he kept abusing the heroine.
The heroine has always been trapped by the oppression of women by the times. The heroine should take power in the future and make some changes.
Chaos! What a mess! Only in chaos can the heroine have a chance to escape.
It's over! The heroine is about to endure the second wave of suffering from King Rong... I just ask you not to be too cruel.