[Love won through cunning and force, parental romance, a love story between people over thirty]
◆Transmigrated beauty X domineering traditional patriarch◆
After Yu Ci accidentally hit her head, she suddenly remembered that she came from the modern world a thousand years in the future. Before she could make sense of everything that had happened over the years, a steady-eyed little girl came up to her and said
"Mother, we have to run! Uncle is going to bring the clan elders here soon and force you to marry him!"
Fu You'en had two regrets in her previous life:
First, she had trusted the wrong person, believing the vows sworn by her childhood friend, only to die a miserable death amid the rivalries of the inner household.
Second, after her father passed away, she had failed to stop her uncle from forcing her mother to marry him. Later, for the sake of her own career, she had offered her mother up to him.
From then on, her mother was passed from one man's bed to another, a caged bird for the powerful nobles of the capital who could turn the clouds with one hand and rain with the other.
There's still time to change everything! She has to leave this small city, where all the misfortune began, with her mother right away.
On the day Yu Ci and her daughter flee the city, Yu Ci thinks she will finally be free to go wherever she pleases. But an unexpected misunderstanding brings her into contact with a man who is difficult in every way.
He's domineering, intensely controlling, and has countless tricks up his sleeve. He's a lot to handle. At first, Yu Ci thinks over and over how unlucky she is, but later realizes perhaps it isn't all bad.
At least he's genuinely good in a fight, and even better at using his power to crush people.
The capital's nobles who keep appearing out of nowhere, declaring that they love her and giving her the creeps, all meet their match at his hands.
Reader's guide:
1. One-on-one in the modern world, not a multiple-love-interest story.
2. All the men who shared the mother's bed in her previous life are madmen. The only difference is how crazy they are. A tale of tragic, all-consuming love, with no single reborn character.
3. Set in a world modeled on the Tang dynasty.
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A coming-soon story: The Duke's Wife
◆Transmigrated beauty X possessive traditional man◆
Qiao Mu accidentally transmigrates to ancient times, where her soul is reborn in another body. The new body has been frail and sickly since childhood. On the rare occasion she goes on an outing, the second son of a duke, traveling far from home, falls in love with her at first sight.
Jiang Nanxiao asks for her hand, and she marries into the Jiang family.
He holds her hand tightly. "In life, we'll share every day; in death, we'll share a grave. I will never take a concubine in this life. It will be only you and me."
She smiles and agrees, thinking they can spend their lives together in peace. But not long after their child is born, he unexpectedly inherits the title of duke, and his behavior grows increasingly possessive.
She suffers terribly and tries again and again to change things, but nothing works. To be free, she has no choice but to plan a "fake death."
But she accidentally takes things too far, and her fake death becomes real...
Yet her soul doesn't return to the underworld. When she opens her eyes again, she's wearing familiar modern clothes and has returned to her healthy, radiant modern body!
With fortune exhausted and misfortune arriving, she's still in ancient times, and trouble finds her from the start: bandits attack.
Fortunately, the court is in the middle of a campaign to eliminate bandits, and reinforcements arrive in time. Their leader is tall and powerfully built, dressed in a black robe. With a long saber, he takes down countless bandits.
Just as Qiao Mu's heart finally settles, the man turns to look at her. That cold, handsome face unmistakably belongs to Jiang Nanxiao, the man she has been entangled with for so many years.
Qiao Mu's vision goes black.
After the bandits are captured, Qiao Mu, with no legal identity and no way to protect herself, pretends to be the daughter of a branch of the Jiang family so she won't be abandoned.
But before Jiang Nanxiao can question her, the child she has in this world arrives. Late at night, the little one quietly enters her room and asks through tears, "I can bear my mother leaving me, but why haven't you come to visit me in my dreams for years? Have you rejected me completely?"
No child in the world could fail to recognize their mother. Qiao Mu is shaken to the core, her mind in turmoil.
Seeing that she's in trouble, the child comes up with a plan to help her become an adopted daughter of the Jiang family.
The Jiangs are a powerful, wealthy family. If she becomes a daughter of the Jiang family, Jiang Nanxiao will be her adoptive brother in name. Even if he becomes suspicious in the future, he won't be able to cross that line.
If this works out, it would be wonderful!
Only, at some point, the man's gaze grows increasingly intense.
"My wife and I shared a bed for many years. You should know that, to me, social status is no more than roadside sand. Destroying it would take no more than a step."
Theme: In life and in death, we made our vows together.
Although Xiao Zhao is annoying, it seems the position offered to him is that of a princess (regardless of whether it will actually materialize, his harem has already been dismissed). What about Lao Zhao? He can't just pull together a princess, a prince, and a noblewoman, can he? The prince consort can go cool off somewhere else; the advisors should observe first.
Their past lives must have been quite something, weren't they? They're all incredibly crazy!
I hope they succeed in escaping. I hate the male lead's arrogant, self-assured attitude. 🐶
Women in the Central Plains could also develop the same leg shape from riding horses, but horses were expensive in agrarian civilizations. Children from families that could afford to ride horses from a young age were unlikely to work as street vendors, as class distinctions were relatively rigid in feudal dynasties. The scene where Zhao discovers the proprietress's problem is brilliantly written.
I find it more enjoyable to read it in a continuous stream. Reading one chapter a day like this, I don't really get it anymore.
Between the reborn man and the capable man, who will come out on top? Place your bets now.
This person definitely has a serious illness. [Fear][fear][fear]
I don't know why, but I really dislike Xiao Zhao. He's like a lunatic. [Crying emoji]
How can it run? It feels like it's about to do something.
Compared to that, Lao Zhao seems more normal.