The Little Bodhisattva Refuses to Marry

"Shen Ji: a kept man by status, a proper wife in her manner!"

Princess Yunlang once had a secret engagement no one knew about.

For Shen Ji's sake, she knelt in the study for days without food or water, begging her parents to give their permission.

Her father said, "He's just a low-ranking aide in the Imperial Guard. You... you must be out of your mind!"

Her mother said, "There are plenty of brave, handsome young men in the capital, all dashing and charming! Why don't we look around a little more?"

Yunlang firmly shook her head. Her heart had just awakened to love, and Shen Ji was the only one in her heart and mind.

After she finally got her way, she held the marriage contract and gazed toward the handsome young man in the military camp, her heart full of anticipation.

Even if all they had in the future was simple food and plain living, she would be content.

But overnight, her father was imprisoned, and Yunlang was stripped of her title and reduced to a commoner.

Shen Ji had risen to become a general in the Imperial Guard. She hadn't wanted to use their engagement to ask him for help, but there was no other way to clear her father's name.

The snow in the capital was so heavy!

She waited all night outside the Shen residence, only to hear his legitimate mother toss out the words, "Break off the engagement."

There were so many things she could have told herself to feel better, like that he and his legitimate mother didn't get along. But that was just a lie she'd told herself!

And thrown to her along with those words was a jade hairpin. It had been a birthday gift from the Empress when she turned twelve, and the token of love she'd given him.

"Shen Ji, if I ever forget you, just show me this hairpin and I'll recognize you!"

In the end, he wouldn't even see her once.

He'd even sent someone else to return the hairpin.

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Three years after breaking off the engagement, he waited three years for her to return to the capital.

All he got was news that she would soon be married.

He'd thought it was just a rumor.

At a palace banquet, he watched helplessly as she smiled and chatted with another man.

The man thoughtfully introduced them: "Yunlang, this is Shen Ji, the Great General of the Imperial Guard. General Shen, this is my wife-to-be."

Shen Ji's hand tightened around his teacup before he could stop it, his back going rigid.

She smiled faintly. "A pleasure to meet you, General Shen."

He tossed and turned in the barracks all night. In his dreams, he could see her sitting with her eyes lowered in a corner of the banquet hall.

"You aren't married yet, so why can't I have you?"

Little Bodhisattva, guess whether I'll let you go this time.

A softhearted princess who is always ready to run away, a little Bodhisattva x a cold-faced, scheming, ruthless Imperial Guard general

(Princess Li Yunlang x Imperial Guard General Shen Ji)

- The princess refuses to marry?

- Then I'll marry her anyway!

Bonus scene:

"How far have you gone with Zhao Xingzhou?"

"I haven't!" she protested softly. "No one else bullies me like you do!"

"Don't keep things ambiguous with Zhao Xingzhou..."

Li Yunlang stared at him in disbelief. How could anyone be so unreasonable, twisting right and wrong like that?

She stared at his jaw, bit down on it, and said angrily, "You're the one I'm involved with!"

Shen Ji smirked. "Then break off your engagement and give me a title."

1. 1v1, both leads' first love and only partner.

2. Fake reconciliation after a broken engagement: there was a misunderstanding, and the relationship was never truly broken.

3. Fake coercive romance: the male lead is stubborn but softhearted, and can't bear to let his precious little Bodhisattva suffer even the slightest grievance.

4. The male lead pursues the female lead after hurting her: This part is real! The first broken engagement was a misunderstanding, but later the male lead uses some underhanded tactics to force her into the relationship and breaks her heart. Later, when he sees her preparing for her wedding, he panics and starts pursuing her relentlessly!

Theme: You are my salvation.