The Graceful Noblewoman and Her Lovesick Hound

[Arrogant beauty × masked mad dog]

A special Qixi Festival bonus chapter is here! The new novel next door, Thirsty for a Wife, is now underway.

In her previous life, Xiao Yufu was born to a noble family and never gave a second thought to Xiao Tan, the son of her father's concubine.

Besides, he had risen from a hated, ruthless official to the most powerful man at court by means that were far from honorable.

She, meanwhile, married a handsome man from an equally well-matched family. They treated each other with respect, and her mother-in-law was kind. Her only regret was that they never had children.

Miaoyuan Temple was a thousand-year-old monastery renowned for granting prayers for children. Xiao Yufu lifted her skirts and knelt devoutly on the prayer mat. In a daze, she looked up. For some reason, she felt a dark, clinging gaze pass over every inch of her body. Even the compassion of the countless Buddhas seemed to have taken on a different, sinister cast.

Behind the statue, a man's shadowy gaze fixed on Yufu through a tiny hole.

Incense curled and rose beneath the painted ceiling. A gentle glow rested on her devout face. When he heard what she was silently praying for, his lips pressed together, and an overwhelming possessiveness swept over him and consumed him.

A bodyguard beside him asked, “My lord, will Miss Fu get her wish?”

Xiao Tan's gaze darkened further. “Yes.”

The bodyguard continued, “Then should we stop giving Miss Fu's husband the contraceptive medicine?”

After a pause, Xiao Tan replied in a calm, icy voice, “Kill him.”

*

After Xiao Yufu died unjustly, her spirit wandered the world. She saw her usually stern, taciturn younger brother emerge from her husband's home with a knife in his hand. He stood tall and straight on the jade steps, stained with blood, and gazed up at the ashes filling the sky.

“I've avenged you,” he said softly.

Reborn, she returns to the time before her marriage. The young Xiao Tan is still in the carriage her father brought him home to the Xiao residence in.

As his elder sister, she sincerely protects him, keeping others from looking down on him and teaching him to fit into the great aristocratic clans. She raises him to become a peerless gentleman whom the nobility cannot praise enough.

Day by day, his dependence on her grows more and more unsettling. So before arranging a marriage for her younger brother, Yufu decides to marry herself off first.

But one morning she wakes in a strange, hidden room. Her usually docile younger brother is surrounded by an intense air of aggression. He approaches her step by step out of the darkness, holding a letter she wrote to the top scholar.

“Big Sister promised she wouldn't abandon me. You promised that as long as I...” He presses close to her neck and inhales her scent. His dark eyes are tinged red with a kind of sick obsession. “Fu'er, you were already my wife in our previous life. Where do you think you're going now?”

Xiao Yufu: “...?”

·The female and male leads are not related by blood. The male lead also has the surname Xiao because he wants to share the female lead's surname.

·Both leads are reborn. The female lead is chaste after being reborn, and the male lead is chaste in both his previous and current lives. Happy ending.

·This is not a revenge power fantasy focused on the female lead, but a romance centered on the two leads.

·The male lead was putting on an act in his previous life. In this life, he's a younger man who resents being unable to be the female lead's older brother or father. He acts out of bounds, so readers with strict moral standards should take care.

·Character profile cards courtesy of WANG-PT.

Please add the next novel, Thirsty for a Wife, to your reading list

[Radiant, flirtatious rich beauty × beautiful, tragic, brooding hypocrite]

The woman falls in love after marriage. The man has been plotting for a long time. A love rivalry at every turn. Sweet and angsty, happy ending.

After New Year's Eve, shocking news spreads through Yun Capital:

His Majesty has betrothed the endlessly flirtatious Princess Commandery Su Yunli to Xie Suizhou, the Censor-in-Chief who avoids women.

Su Yunli doesn't think much of Xie Suizhou.

Born to a humble family, he is incorruptible and doesn't line his pockets. He is aloof and upright, a scrupulously honest official. But somehow, he seems to be her nemesis, always stumbling upon secrets she would never share with outsiders.

For instance, she has just stepped down from the carriage of a young marquis when she heads straight to a poetry gathering with a top scholar. She's barely seen off the persistent Seventh Prince before smilingly accepting a love poem from the Sixth Prince.

She fumes, thinking that this man must be the one who spread her scandalous reputation throughout Yun Capital.

After their wedding, she and Xie Suizhou treat each other with icy courtesy, like strangers, except in bed.

Many a night, after the lamps are put out and the curtains drawn, Su Yunli glares furiously at the fierce, domineering man. Wasn't he supposed to avoid women?

No, she can't take this. She has to find a way to get rid of the annoying man.

*

After their divorce, Su Yunli lives a comfortable, carefree life.

But none of the performers at the brothel will go back to the Princess Commandery residence with her, and her former lovers dodge her whenever they see her. Sometimes, lonely in the middle of the night, she dreams of her ex-husband, Xie Suizhou.

Su Yunli never imagined she could get pregnant after going so long without a man!

What is she supposed to do? Won't people think it's a bad omen?

After much deliberation, Su Yunli finds her upright ex-husband, Xie Suizhou, and rushes into his arms, tears in her eyes. “Help me. Let's get back together, or I'll find someone else...”

She expects him to mock her coldly or lecture her about propriety and shame. Instead, he gently strokes her still-flat stomach and says, unhurriedly, “Find someone else? Li'er, are you thinking of keeping the child and getting rid of the father?”

·The author's profile also has other delicious completed novels:

The Flirt's Game: A wicked woman toys with a man.

Pleasure Before Sleep: A lofty, untouchable beauty turns into a brooding ghostly lover.

Theme: When youth is in bloom, nurture your wings and soar toward the south.