Forced to Marry a Madman

[Frontier Eagle x Delicate Palace Flower]

[Forced Possession / Desperate Pursuit After the Breakup / Both Leads Are Virgins / Size Difference / Status Difference / Older Man / The Powerful One Bows His Head]

In the twelfth year of the Suihe era, a rebellion broke out in Jingzhou, the capital fell, and the whole realm was thrown into shock.

Just before Cui Yunzhi took her own life to preserve her dignity, a gleaming silver arrow came whistling through the air and pierced the rebel leader's head.

The little princess was terrified. To stay alive, she bit her lip and threw her arms around the foreign man's neck.

The newcomer gave a surprised laugh and lifted her in one arm, rescuing her from the darkened hall.

Like a hero riding in on the wind, cleaving through the rain.

*

Only later, after she had lost count of her failed escapes and been dragged back to his royal tent, where he forced her to consummate the marriage and made her the Eagle King's woman, did Cui Yunzhi understand:

He was no peerless hero.

He was the wildest eagle in Kungu. Once he claimed you as his, every bit of you, flesh and soul, had to belong to him, down to the last detail.

Forever his, and his alone, like any ordinary prize of war.

*

Shen Zhaoshan didn't like enemies who were too foolish, or girls who were too delicate.

But when the only little princess of the Chen Dynasty, eyes red, begged him to show her mercy, Shen Zhaoshan mysteriously found himself unable to push her away.

So she became the greatest treasure of his campaign south, more precious than all the silks and jewels: delicate, noble, and lovely to play with inside a cage.

He brought her back to Yanzhou and gave her snowy mountains, eagles, grasslands, long trails of smoke, and sunsets. He taught her to ride and watched her gradually beam at him with a sweet smile.

He thought he had done a fine job raising this precious peony.

But the naive girl only shook her head and said she didn't want any of it.

What did she want?

Not until Cui Yunzhi abandoned him and their baby, still in swaddling clothes, and leapt from the Great Green Mountain, declaring that he had no heart, did Shen Zhaoshan understand:

She wanted a heart, something the Eagle King did not have: one that beat for a single person alone.

#The Chant of the Chile People Rings Across Yin Mountain, While the Beauty's Pearls of Tears Have Always Been Many#

[The heroine fakes her death and the hero pursues her. One-on-one romance, both leads are virgins, happy ending.]

[The blurb gives different perspectives different information. The male lead is a warlord. He has a little conscience early on, but not much, and he's really not a decent man. The two of them are stubborn and tangled up in each other. After the heroine fakes her death later on, the hero goes mad and starts pursuing her. He'll pay for everything he's done.]

Here's another pursuit-after-the-breakup novel to enjoy together. Coming next

The Substitute Bride Is Both Delicate and Alluring

Marquis Wei Hui of Jin, a noble scion of the Lan family, was a man of lofty character and exceptional talent, entrusted with the reins of power at a young age. By twenty-six, he had the emperor under his control and the feudal lords at his command.

But this peerless Lord Wei had one blemish on his otherwise flawless life.

That blemish was his wife, Zhou Yingxu.

Rumor had it that the fallen Zhou clan had found this impostor in a brothel to marry in place of their own daughter, all to secure a powerful alliance. She was born with a bewitching allure and was skilled in bed, always ready to seduce a man. She had countless lovers, and before she married the Marquis of Jin, every refined gentleman south of the Yangtze had been her paramour.

Zhou Yingxu knew all these rumors, and admitted they were true.

Because every one of them was.

But so what?

At first, she thought Wei Hui simply didn't care.

Later, she realized he truly didn't care.

He didn't care about the rumors. He didn't care about her.

*

After buying her freedom, Zhou Yingxu took the place of the Zhou family's daughter, who had died of illness. She became a noblewoman and married into one of the greatest lordly households in the land.

The Marquis of Jin treated her coldly, so the other branches of the family bullied her and the servants looked down on her. After countless difficult days, Zhou Yingxu held a little maid, shivering just as badly as she was, and secretly made up her mind.

In the midst of a snowy winter, she softened her voice and stumbled into the arms of a nobleman, like a startled cat, timidly calling him "Husband."

From then on, she played the beautiful young wife, and he played the virtuous husband. They shared a bed for years, and by the end Zhou Yingxu was foolish enough to believe he loved her a little, even if only a tiny bit.

Until Wei Hui raised an army in rebellion. With a knife at her throat and her life hanging by a thread, she was held hostage, and Lord Wei said:

"A counterfeit couple, a trifling diversion. Why pity her? Just kill her."

So he had known everything. She had spent more than a decade struggling to reach Chang'an, working diligently and using every trick she could think of, but still hadn't managed to become his wife.

*

Wei Hui had known from the start that she was an impostor sent by the Zhou family.

He didn't care.

He didn't need anyone to love him, and he didn't need to love anyone.

At the lantern festival on the night of the Shangyuan Festival in Chang'an, the young woman blushed and asked, "My lord, am I your wife now?"

The festival lanterns all went out at once. Only the eyes of the person before him shone brighter than the stars.

It was only much later that he understood: the thunderous beating of his heart that night had not been the result of Zhou Yingxu's clumsy tricks. It was the joy he could no longer contain.

But Zhou Yingxu left him a letter of separation and vanished without a trace.

Marquis Wei Hui had been clever all his life, but this was the one time he was a fool. It cost him his heart, and there was no going back.

Theme: Strive tirelessly for everyone's happiness.