Saving the Beautiful, Strong, and Tragic Captive

Also known as The Beautiful, Powerful, and Tragic Young Master Refuses to Be Bent: a shattered, aloof beauty x a sunny heroine, a healing romance that grows over time, HE. P.S. The related series, The Pure Love Novel Senior Brother Rescue Plan, is currently ongoing. Please add it to your library! Xiaoyu had lived among the common folk for sixteen years, growing up wild and free. Then one day, she met a noble young master, pure as the moon in the sky and distant as a crane among the clouds. The young master was dressed in white as pure as snow, beautiful and kindhearted. Unfortunately, his story was the kind where he was imprisoned in bed by his archenemy from the demonic cult and forced into a possessive relationship. That day, under the blazing lights of a banquet, she watched helplessly from a corner as the young master was switched out and cast down from his lofty pedestal. Later, she saw him with dust on his white robes and chains around his ankles, forced to crawl beneath his enemy without a shred of dignity. At his most utterly humiliated, all he could do was keep his back to her and tell her in a hoarse voice, even as she was forced to watch: Don't look. Don't listen. Don't think about it. The man who had once been the bright moon in the sky had been dragged into the abyss. His halo was gone, and his body was covered in wounds. But it was all right. Xiaoyu would do everything she could to take him away, wipe the mud from him, and restore this moon to a life of freedom and innocence. [Important Content Warnings] 1. The romance between the male and female leads is the absolute main storyline. However, the main villain, a man, has unrequited feelings for the male lead early on. After thirty chapters, he gradually falls for the heroine. Later, he becomes a proper second male lead, but his feelings for everyone are strictly one-sided and will not affect the relationship between the male and female leads. 2. Chapter 25 is where the "most utterly humiliated" scene mentioned in the blurb occurs. You can check the comments for details. The author hasn't deleted any objective comments, so if you can't accept it, just click away. But I also sincerely ask everyone not to take things out of context. Readers who finish the whole story should understand my original intentions and my attitude toward each character. There are so many things I'd like to tell everyone, but I know the power of words is limited. So I hope you'll read these words carefully before deciding whether to open the story. Thank you. [Completed book in the same series] The Conquest of the Handsome, Tragic, and Powerful Childhood Friend Blurb: He was a minister's son, once the moon in the sky, but in a single night he fell into a life of degradation. Chu Yan never imagined that when she saw him again years later, the boy who had fallen into the mire but refused to accept his fate would have been hidden away in the general's private residence by the great general himself. After weathering countless trials together, the two came to understand and cherish one another. Though they were both men, anyone who saw them could only call them a match made in heaven. The night she broke into the residence, she stared blankly as he and the great general brushed cheeks and temples together. Standing in the cold wind, she couldn't understand why, when she and he had both been sent to the music house and relied on one another for years in that cruel place, she still couldn't compete with the years they'd spent apart. She and he reunited. She saw the boy from her past, now Qing Lin'er, smile and greet her, as lovely as a spring mountain. Chu Yan finally understood, and told herself: 'It seems that great general really treats him well. He hasn't just given him a life of servants at his beck and call. Surely he's given him so much love that it has filled the devastation in his heart, letting him forget everything unbearable and live in peace.' So she smiled back at him too, then turned and walked into the wind and snow, alone fulfilling the promise they'd made as children. She would see all the splendor of Jiangnan, journeying onward by herself, with no thought for the years passing by. [Ongoing book in the same series] The Pure Love Novel Senior Brother Rescue Plan Blurb: Yun Shi had been a street urchin since childhood. It wasn't until she was seven that Senior Brother Yun Heng found her and brought her home. As the first disciple of Lingyun Sect, her senior brother was an aloof beauty to outsiders, but to her he was both mother and father. He taught her how to wield a sword, write, and be well-mannered, raising her for ten whole years. Yun Shi thought she could live forever as a carefree freeloader, protected by her senior brother and backed by the sect, until she discovered that they were actually living inside a pure love novel. In the original story, she was a random cannon-fodder character. The protagonist was the Holy Son of the Hehuan Sect, who had transmigrated into this world, carried a bent-over System, and possessed a golden finger that made everyone fall for him. His final target was none other than her own senior brother, Yun Heng, with his snow-white robes and silver eyes, as beautiful as an immortal banished from the heavens. According to the plot, Yun Heng would soon be dragged down from his lofty pedestal by the protagonist's cheat. He would go mad for him, become obsessed with him, and bang his head against a wall for the sake of the pretty boy, until his Daoist heart shattered and he fell into demonic cultivation for love. Yun Shi: Huh? What kind of nonsense is this? After the ridiculous plot shattered her worldview, a fierce glint appeared in her eyes. She rolled up her sleeves and decided to defend her senior brother's virtue, becoming the biggest obstacle on the protagonist's path to winning him over. A bent-over System and a golden finger that makes everyone fall for him? If you want to lay a hand on her brother, you'd better first ask whether Yun Shi's sword agrees! From the start, everything went smoothly. Yun Shi beat the Holy Son to Senior Brother, who was afflicted by a love curse and unable to move. Before she could celebrate, an entity calling itself the "Rescue System" in her mind dropped a bombshell. ---To save Yun Heng and break the curse, she had to be intimate with him, starting with a kiss and going further step by step, until their bodies and souls became one. Only then could the curse be completely undone. When she first learned this, Yun Shi couldn't believe it. Yun Shi struggled to resist. Much later, Yun Shi looked at Yun Heng, pale as paper and completely silent, and let out a helpless sigh before bowing her head in resignation. "Senior Brother, this is all to save you... You're wise and perceptive, so please don't accuse an innocent person later..." With that, she steeled herself, closed her eyes, and pressed her lips against her brother's. Then the System piled on again: Their lips touching wasn't enough. They had to exchange saliva, or the effect wouldn't be strong enough, blah blah blah. Yun Shi... felt her ears burn. She wished she could go deaf, but there was no turning back now. All she could do was awkwardly use her tongue to pry open his teeth... At last, she managed it. Yun Shi panted as she pulled away. When she looked up, she met a pair of beautiful, clear eyes like gray glass. Senior Brother Yun Heng watched her quietly. She had no idea how long he'd been awake. Yun Shi: "!!!" S-Senior Brother, wait! I can explain! It really isn't what you think it is! - Theme: Love is a flower blooming in the mud.