[If you're interested, please add this to your favorites!]
After Shen Qingyu woke up, she had forgotten everything about her past. She only remembered that she had to go to the capital to find someone, the man she was supposed to marry.
Unfortunately, her journey got off to a bad start. She was captured by a band of mountain bandits and taken back to their hideout.
Luckily, just three months later, the imperial court sent troops to wipe out the bandits. Even the bandit chief who often bullied her died without leaving a whole corpse.
Clutching her aching chest, Shen Qingyu finally reached the capital she had been longing for.
But before she could find her husband, a young marquis in the capital abducted her and kept her as his mistress.
The young marquis looked exactly like the bandit chief.
At night, she cried and begged to find her husband. The young marquis dragged her back into his tent, where she cried all night. She tried to escape, but the man caught her and locked her in a woodshed.
Half a year later, she still hadn't found her husband. Clutching her slightly rounded belly, Shen Qingyu was on the verge of tears. Feeling helpless, she wanted to go to the young marquis. She thought that if only he treated her a little better, she would stop looking for her husband.
Shen Qingyu never found the young marquis. Instead, a few arrogant servants showed up and drove her out of the residence where she had lived for half a year.
The servants said the young marquis was getting married, and a mistress like her wasn't fit to be seen in public.
*
Song Yu had been betrothed since childhood to a girl from the well-matched Shen family of Qingzhou.
One spring, he spotted a dirty-looking young woman on the street. Looking into her watery eyes, Song Yu became interested in her.
The next day, someone delivered the young woman to his bed. Song Yu knew that his wife could only be a daughter of the Shen family. The woman before him was not fit to be seen in public.
He warned her, "Remember your place."
But after keeping her as his mistress for half a year, he grew irritated that she still remembered her place.
He had gone to great lengths to keep her for half a year, providing everything she ate and wore. Shen Qingyu ought to belong to him.
Watching the young woman murmur in her sleep that she wanted to find her husband, Song Yu gritted his teeth and fiercely pulled her into his arms. Breaking his promise, he said, "I can be the only husband you have."
The next day, Song Yu returned to his residence and broke off his engagement. When he came back, the mistress he had been keeping there was gone.
He had guarded against her day and night, yet the moment he looked away, she still managed to run off!
A little guide for readers:
1. The male lead says one thing but means another. He's absolutely smitten!
2. The young marquis is the bandit chief. Cue him getting jealous of himself.
3. The male lead is stubborn early on and a little less than decent. Qingyu will teach him how to behave later!
4. The female lead is rather gentle.
Theme: Life holds countless possibilities. Be brave and give them a try.
Is this boring?! So you did it?!
So the male protagonist is not S?!