After Catching My Archenemy Mooning Over Me

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[A wooden-headed, insecure man with separation anxiety who’s desperate to marry]

Song Xuqing had hated Pei Linchen since childhood. She had never taken their betrothal seriously.

It was only when she came of age and her father sent her to the Pei residence, supposedly so the two of them could grow closer, that she saw him again.

Pei Linchen was still the dazzling prodigy in everyone’s eyes, bright-eyed and handsome, refined and otherworldly.

But she couldn’t stand his fearless, carefree ways.

Because compared to him, she was trapped by propriety and constrained at every turn, like some pitiful creature.

So after moving into the Pei residence, she was always finding ways to get in Pei Linchen’s way, turning his life upside down.

First, she wanted to ruin the engagement and win her freedom.

Second, she longed to see this noble young master lose his composure and become a miserable wreck.

After all her efforts, that day finally came.

She discovered that he was hopelessly in love with a woman, but couldn’t win her over, and often drowned his sorrows in drink late at night.

She was so delighted she nearly went mad, convinced she’d gotten hold of Pei Linchen’s greatest secret and could drag this untouchable beauty right off his pedestal.

Song Xuqing secretly followed him and finally found where he’d hidden keepsakes belonging to the woman he loved.

But when she arrived, her smile instantly froze.

She thought, finding something to hold over Pei Linchen really was a good thing.

If only

that room hadn’t been crammed full of portraits of her.

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A gentle, sweet fool of a beauty and a scheming, green-tea homewrecker

1.

Tong Shuang and Chu Mingzhen had been married for years, in perfect harmony. They were Mingcheng’s most famous loving couple.

One day, the Chu family from the capital sent people to claim kinship. Only then did she learn that her husband was the Chu clan’s eldest son born of a concubine, who had been lost outside the family years ago.

Just like that, she went from a country girl to the eldest daughter-in-law of a prestigious family.

The rules of the nobility were many, and being the eldest daughter-in-law was no easy task. Every day she had to learn the capital’s etiquette and be careful about everything she said and did.

Tong Shuang could endure all those constraints. What she truly couldn’t stand was the uncle who had suddenly appeared out of nowhere, Chu Zhiyi.

2.

Chu Zhiyi was strikingly handsome and the Chu family’s legitimate son. Still young, he was already a formidable force in politics, and everyone praised his upright character, calling him the capital’s most exceptional talent.

But Tong Shuang didn’t like him. The noble young master praised by outsiders as noble and refined always treated her and her husband as thorns in his side. He would fix her with a gloomy stare and constantly target her husband.

3.

Bound by the Chu clan’s glory, Chu Zhiyi had devoted himself from childhood to books and family affairs. He knew nothing of tenderness or hardship, giving all his energy to the family’s fortunes.

He had lived that way for twenty years.

Then, in the winter of Chong’an Year Three, his elder brother, who had been lost outside the family, returned home with his wife.

It was from Tong Shuang that he first learned what warmth meant.

4.

His elder brother had grown up working the fields. In knowledge, looks, and physique, he was inferior to Chu Zhiyi in every way.

What right did he have to marry such a wonderful wife?

His sister-in-law deserved someone better.

So if his brother wouldn’t give her up,

he would take her.

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