The Frail Beauty Awakens

[The heroine of a story awakens, both are virgins, six-year age gap, 18 x 24.]

★ Frail, scheming beauty x abstinent, cold-faced Duke ★

At eighteen, after both her parents died and she fell seriously ill, Xu Zhiyue learned that she was actually the heroine of an adult story, and that she had been infected with a love spell.

According to the original plot, she had to win over the male lead and successfully marry him, or she would die in a year.

Xu Zhiyue gave a weak, delicate cough. She wanted to live.

Following the plot prompts in her mind, she dressed up carefully on a rainy day and went to Mingguang Temple to meet the male lead.

He was tall, dressed in white, exceptionally handsome, and exuded an air of nobility.

Xu Zhiyue picked her target, walked up to him, and pretended to stumble.

"Oh!" she cried, feigning a delicate manner.

The man froze for a moment, then quickly reached out to steady her.

Xu Zhiyue lowered her rosy neck and glanced at him shyly.

But the man suddenly spoke. "Cousin A Yue?"

Xu Zhiyue froze, then looked at him carefully. "...Cousin Que?"

*

When Xu Zhiyue was young, she lived at the Duke of Shen's estate for several years and got along well with the Shen family sons and daughters, except for Shen Que.

He was six years older than them and exceptionally aloof and proud.

As an adult, Shen Que became even harder to get along with, and at twenty-four he still wasn't married.

It was said that he didn't even have a single servant in his room.

Who would have thought that he was the male lead she had to win over!

Xu Zhiyue: "..."

To stay alive, she acted weak and sweet around him, and would throw herself at him from time to time.

At last, Shen Que fell for her and proposed that she marry into his household.

Xu Zhiyue was overjoyed, thinking she had completed her mission.

But suddenly, a voice appeared in her mind:

[The heroine must find the male lead as soon as possible and complete the mission to win him over.]

Xu Zhiyue: "...?"

*

At first, Shen Que thought his cousin was acting strangely. She walked unsteadily, and her clothes kept slipping off.

It seemed as though she was trying to seduce him.

Later, he held her as they hid in a rockery in the garden, gripped her delicate chin, and brushed his lips against hers.

"Why have you been avoiding me lately, Cousin?"

"Have I not been taking good enough care of you?"

Xu Zhiyue, who had mistaken the male lead: "..."

Her abstinent, self-controlled cousin was actually a brooding, sinister schemer!

Someone save her!!๑ᵒᯅᵒ๑

Theme: Love makes life better.