Everlasting Glory

[Marriage Before Love / Winning Her Back After Marriage / Sweet Romance / Mutual Healing]

Xu Zhihua is the illegitimate daughter of a fifth-rank official.

Not only is her status low, she's timid and weak-willed, too.

Sheng Rong is a notorious playboy in Chang'an.

Not only was he born into a prince's household, he's as handsome as an immortal.

By a twist of fate, two people as different as heaven and earth are forced together.

On their wedding night, he never came home, and she became the laughingstock of all Chang'an.

She knows Sheng Rong doesn't like her and isn't happy about this marriage.

So after they wed, she tries her best to please him, only for things to fall apart just when she thinks their relationship is improving.

Xu Zhihua doesn't know why, but she's even more afraid to bother him now. She simply takes care of her own duties.

Unexpectedly, Sheng Rong starts staying the night, fondling and cherishing her every night, yet never taking things all the way.

On the eve of the imperial examinations, she goes to a temple to pray for Sheng Rong's success when Song Qingqiu, her childhood sweetheart, appears.

As Song Qingqiu gazes at her with deep affection and takes her hand, Sheng Rong suddenly appears, his face dark with displeasure.

Sheng Rong takes her home and pins her against the bed. Xu Zhihua's heart suddenly races, and the man's long, slender fingers grasp her smooth chin. The heart-pounding sensation of their lips and teeth meeting sweeps over her. She forgets to resist for a moment. By the time she comes to her senses, Sheng Rong has already pulled away. His fingers brush her slender neck as he murmurs her childhood name, "Suisui, I'm jealous."

*

Sheng Rong was never as good as his older brother at winning their father's favor. After his mother died, he became the odd one out.

Even as a boy, he understood that the only way to survive was to put on the air of a dissolute playboy.

Marrying that illegitimate daughter wouldn't really affect him, and he thought he would never fall for her.

But when he sees Xu Zhihua, who is clearly terrified, daring to stand up to his concubine mother for his sake,

he suddenly realizes that he underestimated this little "bunny."

PS:

1. Daily updates according to the rankings before the novel goes premium, with bonus chapters afterward.

2. One-on-one romance, happy ending, both leads have no prior sexual experience.

3. The heroine isn't the assertive type. If you don't like fragile heroines, please steer clear. This story is set in a fictional world, so please don't hold me to every tiny detail.

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[Flirtatious Beauty x Aloof Beauty | Marriage Before Love | Love Triangle]

Jiang Yunhe has never been a good person.

She's the sharpest blade in Chancellor Chen's household, and she has just one mission.

"A Yun, make Ao Jing'an lose his mind over you."

The whole capital laughs at Jiang Yunhe for bringing humiliation upon herself.

On her wedding night, her husband abandons her at the wedding hall, yet at the third watch of the night, she sees the prince riding back to camp, rouge smeared across his lapel like blood.

The next day, she brings him pear cakes to ingratiate herself, and Ao Jing'an sneers as he knocks the jade plate from her hands in front of everyone.

But no one knows...

On their wedding night, as the candles flare, Jiang Yunhe's fingers are hooked around the jade belt at Ao Jing'an's waist.

She deliberately bites through the vermilion on her lips, leaving a damp, red mark on the man's Adam's apple.

A restrained gasp comes from above her: "Does the princess consort know what she's doing?"

When Ao Jing'an gets up, his crimson wedding robe is already rumpled. The lamplight casts his silhouette on the mandarin-duck curtains, and he looks unmistakably like he's fleeing.

Yet he insists on keeping his voice cool: "You truly have no shame..."

Jiang Yunhe leans against the gold-flecked pillow and smiles, watching his ears turn blood red.

*

Seven years ago, on the night the city fell, a little beggar grabbed the young man's battle robe. How could she have known that their reunion would be beneath warm red wedding candles?

But now she's become a poisonous flower carefully raised by his sworn enemy,

while he has become a jade-faced devil, renowned for his military exploits.

*

Ao Jing'an thinks he's the one moving the pieces.

He coolly watches her beauty trap unfold, sees her hair entwine with his armor, and watches her weave a net of affection from seven years of secret love.

Only when she's poisoned and climbs onto his shoulder with seductive eyes does he understand what it means to quench one's thirst with poison.

As the red candles flicker, he grips her waist and demands in a hoarse voice, "All these years, was there even a hint of true affection in the way you looked at me?"

Reading Guide:

1. Two flirtatious strategists face off. The male lead seems icy on the surface, but he fell for her long ago. Jealousy and madness, with a man who slaughters enemies on the battlefield and draws his wife's eyebrows when he gets home.

2. The heroine seems seductive but secretly protects him. Every one of her schemes is actually a way of winning him over. Sweet and angsty in equal measure.

3. Winning-her-back arc + hidden identities + unmasking.

Core theme: Before you can love others, you must learn to love yourself.