Yan Ji transmigrated to ancient times. Her adoptive mother was still ill, and the court had just decreed that unmarried women over twenty would be fined five times the usual amount.
When she found Fu Sheng, he was on the verge of death, but clung to her ankle and begged for help. Seeing the valuable jade pendant at his waist, Yan Ji agreed.
She brought him home, found doctors and medicine for him, and cared for him day after day. With the deadline for the court's fine approaching, she gave him a choice: the pendant or his body.
To her surprise, the man chose to sacrifice himself to protect the pendant.
On the eve of her wedding, Yan Ji saw the man with supposedly crippled legs mount a horse in one swift movement and ride away, whip cracking. She clenched the jade pendant in her hand.
She didn't care about some man. Besides, their deal had been settled, money for goods. She could always pick up another one.
On her wedding day, a distinguished guest arrived. Only then did Yan Ji learn that Fu Sheng wasn't his real name. He was Pei Ji, the new head of the Hedong Pei family. She returned his pendant and received a hundred gold pieces, thinking they'd never cross paths again.
That night, during the wedding festivities, someone burst through the door and stood before the bed, asking with sword in hand, "Can a hundred gold pieces buy a commoner from the countryside?"
[Reading Guide]
1. Classic forced-romance and possessive pursuit, with her running and him chasing.
2. The male lead is a dog. (Don't curse the author, feel free to curse the male lead.)
New novel, "Elder Brother's Widow," blurb below:
[Uncle-and-sister-in-law romance, forced love, classic melodrama]
Shi Nian hated Li Ke with all her heart.
Everyone praised his noble bearing, his courtesy and propriety, and the kindness he showed his late brother's orphan and widow.
Everyone called him the gentlest head of the Li family. Only Shi Nian knew that beneath that mild exterior lurked a monstrous obsession, lying in wait for years and willing to do anything.
Her elder brother died, and the restraints fell away.
Disregarding all bonds of kinship and morality, he used his power to corner his widowed sister-in-law, leaving her no escape and forcing her to stay by his side.
Shi Nian could only curse herself for being blind. Why had she softened her heart and saved a venomous snake like him?
She wanted nothing more than to devour his flesh and drink his blood.
*
One day, Shi Nian fainted.
Li Ke asked, "How is my sister-in-law feeling?"
The old matriarch wept. "She's with child. If she can bear a son, it will comfort your elder brother's spirit in heaven."
That night, rain poured down.
Li Ke sat by the bed and gently stroked her belly. "A Nian, we're going to have a child," he said softly.
Shi Nian knocked his hand away and said coldly, "It's nothing but a bastard. It has no right to be born."
Li Ke paused. His smile only grew as he picked up his little niece, startled awake by the thunder, and threatened her calmly:
"Yao'er, take good care of your mother. She's carrying your little brother. If he lives, you live."
Shi Nian's once-straight back immediately slumped.
*
At the start of winter, Li Ke got married.
By coincidence, Shi Nian went into labor. After a day and a night of pain, she gave birth to the child he had longed for.
In the middle of the night, blazing flames lit up the residence.
Li Ke cast aside all dignity and rushed into the fire. Beneath a fallen beam, he found two bodies.
One large, one small.
He spat out a mouthful of blood, staining the flying snow red. In a single night, his hair turned white.
Ignoring everyone's objections, he held the bodies and refused to bury them for days.
Everyone said, "He's gone mad, he's gone mad..."
*
In the ninth year of Xianhe, Li Ke declared himself emperor and named his elder brother's son as his heir.
When the news reached Yizhou, someone mentioned it. Shi Nian paused while scooping tofu, then smiled and said, "What do imperial affairs have to do with ordinary people like us?"
In the middle of the night, someone slipped into her room, caressed her face, and whispered in her ear, "A Nian, what do you say it has to do with you?"
[Reading Guide]
1. Classic melodrama, forced love, and a long road to winning her back.
2. The male lead is a dog. (Don't curse the author, feel free to curse the male lead.)
3. The heroine is seven years older than the hero. Older woman-younger man romance. The heroine has no sexual experience, while the hero does.
Theme: Be independent and strong.
The female supporting role is so vicious, the male protagonist is really a scumbag for letting him go like this.
There is also the terrible male-female fertility rate in Jinjiang. After reading it, I read a childbirth novel in Jinjiang ancient language. The male-female ratio is 4:1...
Will the heroine die in the end? If the heroine will die, I will not read this article. If it were me, I would fight to the death with the male protagonist. Threatening the male protagonist with suicide has zero effect. The heroine is too cowardly. The male protagonist doesn't love the female protagonist at all and treats her as a tool. I don't want the heroine to die a useless person in the end. Even if she wants to die, she must take revenge before dying. I quite liked this article, but now I'm a little disappointed. Maybe I really don't like such a weak and incompetent heroine.
In fact, I want to say something. If the girl does not cooperate, the boy should feel very uncomfortable if he is forced to do it. How can he become more excited? I'm a little tired of aesthetics after seeing this. I've been forced to do it all the time. The heroine has been getting excited for a long time 🤗
He couldn't protect the heroine and didn't let her go. He even killed the heroine's relatives in return for kindness. I'd be really pissed off if there was a hiccup later in this article.
Wow, is the heroine planning to take two lives in revenge against the hero? Wow, the male protagonist actually suffered zero damage. This article looks too useless 💔
Huang Chao and Zhu Wen are necessary. I don't think someone named Pei can stabilize the world. What a perfect white-haired girl. This article is good, and good for people to know - they can't have any illusions about the clan, they don't treat civilians as human beings, they can't compromise, and they can't save people randomly.
The ending is unsettling, the heroine's relatives are all dead
I have written several chapters since the heroine came back after escaping and now wants to send Shen Yi away safely. When will I enter the next plot? I always feel that the progress of these chapters is very slow, like the word count of Ka Wenshui. Some places are written in too much detail, but they are indispensable to the plot!
The angle of the article is very novel, which is why it feels incoherent in reading, and some of the twists are so abrupt that it always makes me laugh when I read it.