The Golden Palace in Chains (Forced Possession)

"Taken by My Love Rival's Elder Brother After Our Divorce" is now releasing.

[Love and Hate] [Stubborn, Cool Beauty vs. Obsessive Man]

Min Yilian is the daughter of a minor official. Her parents are devoted to each other, and her life is peaceful and uneventful. Who could have imagined that Prince Jin, hoping to bring her father into his service, would decide to take her into his household?

Even though he is a distinguished prince, handsome and composed, her family cannot bear to see her marry into the imperial house, so they decide to arrange her marriage as soon as possible.

The scholar she is to marry breaks his leg on the way. She and her mother go to a temple to pray for blessings, only to be attacked by bandits. Prince Jin rescues them, and an imperial decree of marriage brings her to the capital.

Later, after her father is framed and exiled, Li Huan still refuses to let her go, hiding her away instead.

"Come here."

The first time she escapes, he appears at the inn, perfectly calm, and kills everyone who helped her.

Every time, he personally drags her back. To prepare for her next escape, Min Yilian has no choice but to pretend to comply.

Until the day of the rebellion, when she wraps her arms tightly around Li Huan's waist. "I'll wait for Your Highness to return."

*

Li Huan was born to a palace maid. His father regarded him only as a blade with which to temper his elder brother.

He still remembers the brief glimpse he caught that day, those cool, clear eyes.

Later, he surrounded the palace and killed his brother, intending to ascend the throne with her. The woman who had been whispering sweet nothings with him the night before suddenly joined forces with another and shot an arrow at him.

She had escaped again.

When they met again, he had become Crown Prince. Looking at Min Yilian, who had been brought back, he sneered. "My dear, was your third escape fun?"

Winter turned to spring. He kept her imprisoned and used every means at his disposal.

"I was wrong."

At last she spoke. His expression gradually brightened, and he was even ecstatic.

But Min Yilian smiled as she plunged the hairpin hidden in her sleeve into his chest.

Li Huan smiled too. This was the third time she had killed him.

Note: Both leads are sexually inexperienced.

"Taken by My Love Rival's Elder Brother After Our Divorce"

Zheng Puti had a miserable childhood, but was fortunate to meet her husband. They loved and trusted each other completely.

Yet her husband caught the eye of the Dongyang Commandery Princess and refused to abandon his wife for a shot at success. Had a nobleman not helped her twice, she would already have been reduced to bones.

The princess was furious. Her husband was slandered and thrown in prison, while the Capital Prefecture, cowed by the princess's power, refused to hear the case and locked Zheng Puti up for three days. She swallowed her pride and begged on her knees, offering to separate from her husband, only to be driven out of the princess's residence.

Just as all hope was lost, a charming, cultured young lord suddenly appeared in her bedroom.

The nobleman said, "If you want him to live, come inside."

Though uneasy, she still chose to step through the shadowy doorway, only to have her arms seized as he kissed her wantonly. She struggled in humiliation, nearly throwing herself against a pillar.

"I'm the one who longs for you. You haven't done anything wrong." He wiped away her tears and said gently, "Divorce him, and I'll save him."

It turned out the nobleman was the Dongyang Commandery Princess's elder brother, the Marquis of Wuwei. Panic and fury seized her as she faced his crazed smile.

She had only one day.

*

Cui Ji's parents died in battle. From a young age, he fought his way through the ranks of the army. The emperor trusted him, and he was eventually made a marquis.

At a polo match hosted by his younger sister, he noticed a spirited young woman. They met again when a foreign state came to pay tribute, and he learned she was a female official in the Ministry of Rites. After helping her twice on a whim, he became the nobleman she spoke of.

She spoke sharply to the envoys. She even risked her life to block a blade, all to repay a kindness.

His thoughts turned over and over, but she came with a man to thank him.

The polo match that day, it turned out, had been her asking forgiveness on her husband's behalf.

Watching the loving couple before him, his gaze turned dark. She noticed nothing and softly called the man, "Husband."

Later, his chance finally came.

*

Before their two-year agreement was up, Zheng Puti ran away.

When Cui Ji caught her, he saw the marks on her neck and flew into a rage. "Running off with my brother-in-law is adultery. You have no shame!"

She mocked him, entirely unlike her usual self. "When you eavesdropped through the wall and dreamed of me, did you remember that I was another man's wife?"

"Oh?" He pressed her against the carriage wall and leaned toward her ear. "When you were in bed, were you thinking of him or me?"

But in her indifferent eyes, he saw the face of a man crazed with pleading.

Theme: Those who look down on the weak will ultimately be brought down by them