A Dog-Blood Revenge Story

[A seductive beauty disguises herself as a delicate innocent and drives an aloof gentleman to madness

#You think it's a forced seduction, but I'm luring you right into my trap#]

A new tavern opens in the capital. Its proprietress, Jiang Yu, is born with an irresistible, sultry beauty, but fate has dealt her a cruel hand: she's married to a gambler. To make ends meet, she forces a smile each day and works the room.

Everyone calls her a woman of the demimonde, who uses her beauty to win favor, including the refined and upright eldest legitimate son of the Pei family.

Pei Anjue, the eldest legitimate son of the Pei family, is an upright official and the object of every noblewoman's admiration in the capital.

Pei Anjue once sneered at her for being frivolous, yet time and again he thought of her late at night and found himself wanting to possess her.

On a snowy night, he used underhanded means to get the tavern proprietress's husband thrown in prison, driving her to desperation until she knelt in his study.

"Please, my lord... help me."

Pei Anjue lifted her tear-streaked face, his voice cold. "If you make a living by pleasing men with your looks, then do it properly."

He thought he was forcing her into submission, breaking her pride.

But he didn't know that she had been laying her plans step by step, enticing him to tear off his own mask of propriety.

Books lay scattered across the floor. The usually proper Pei Anjue gripped her slender waist and pinned her against the desk, their temples and cheeks brushing.

Jiang Yu, wearing only the man's shirt, glanced out the window. Seeing his wife glaring furiously, she hooked an arm around his neck and provocatively kissed his Adam's apple. Beneath her clothes, her belly was growing more and more rounded.

Jiang Yu smiled seductively at the window and silently mouthed, "Dear sister, how do you like the husband you stole by taking my place?"

*

No one knew that Jiang Yu was Fu Chunyan.

That year, her stepsister stole her marriage match, and her stepmother caused her to lose the child she was carrying. They had wanted her dead.

Now Fu Chunyan had returned under an alias, her alluring eyes sharp as knives, every step part of her plan.

She had never wanted Pei Anjue's love.

She wanted him to go mad, to fall from his pedestal, and to become the sharpest piece on her revenge board.

She would slowly take away everything they cared about, including the husband her stepsister had stolen from her.

*

Later, when the truth came crashing down, Pei Anjue went mad with rage and slammed her against the wall. "You've been lying to me this whole time? You never loved me?"

She looked as pitiful and innocent as she had the first time they met. "You're the one who said... I should please men with my looks."

#The willing seduce, the clearheaded succumb#

Note: 1. The female lead returns to take revenge and set a trap. She was never married to her fake husband. Her assumed name comes from the saying, "Jiang Taigong fishes, and those who are willing take the bait."

2. The female lead suffered a miscarriage. The child was the male lead's, but he doesn't know. The second female lead took her place and married the male lead, but their marriage is in name only, and he has never touched her.

Blurb captured on March 6, 2025; revised October 8, 2025.

Theme: Overcome hardship and embrace a better life.