Forced Pursuit | The Chase After Her | Angsty Misery | The Female Lead Is Inexperienced, the Male Lead Is Not
Honest, beautiful farm girl x cold, unhinged young nobleman
1.
Ever since Tian Yi was born, people said she was cursed. Abandoned as a child, she grew up on the food her neighbors shared with her.
One snowy night, by chance, she found Fan Lingye unconscious among the reeds.
He was the one who had once promised to marry her and never leave her, in this life or the next...
Now he was her master.
The Fan residence was enormous, and lowly maids like her, assigned to the outer courtyards, were never allowed into the inner quarters.
If one of the maids on duty that Mid-Autumn Festival hadn't fallen ill, and Tian Yi hadn't been summoned to fill in,
she would never have been forced to drink that wine laced with an aphrodisiac.
Tian Yi fought with all her strength and finally escaped the lecher's grasp.
But who could have known that, dazed by the drug, she would stumble into Fan Lingye's room?
That night, the breeze at Yilan Pavilion carried the scent of wine, leaving her dizzy and disoriented.
Deep in the night, after the drug had worn off, Tian Yi fled back to her quarters in a panic.
She washed herself with water, only then realizing that she had kicked her underclothes off the bed and forgotten to retrieve them.
Amitabha, please let him not have noticed...
2.
Fan Lingye had noticed, of course.
The tearful corners of her eyes, her graceful figure, her glistening lips and tongue haunted his dreams again and again, stirring his desire.
An old flame had been rekindled, and memories sealed away for years had surfaced once more.
Thinking of those unreserved, passionate declarations of love and promises, he laughed in amusement.
Well, he would have a little fun. For a country girl like her, being allowed through the doors of Yilan Pavilion was already a blessing beyond measure.
Fan Lingye ordered someone to bring Tian Yi to him, intending to keep her in his room as a maid.
But the place was empty. She had already gone.
3.
It took Tian Yi a long time to understand that the promises he had made her were all lies. When he looked at her with contempt, her heart died along with them.
She escaped the Fan residence and carefully arranged a marriage for herself.
Before the wedding cries could even finish, the main door was suddenly kicked open. A fine horse charged in and cornered her.
Looking up at the familiar face above her, she begged through her tears, "I'm cursed. I'm the one person in this world you can never have. Please, let me go."
The horse towered over her. The man's gaze was cold and dark, his figure looming above her in the shadows.
"Let you go?" He bent down and lifted Tian Yi's chin with a soft whip. "Didn't you say you'd love only me for all eternity?"
Then he sneered.
"You think I can't have you? Then I'll have you anyway!"
- Bonus scene:
A series of indistinct sounds came from the dim room...
"You think I can't have you?" Fan Lingye gripped the soft waist of the woman in his arms and thrust hard. His low voice carried a hint of mockery. "A Yi, say it again. Have I got you yet?"
[Reading Guide]:
1. One-on-one romance, happy ending, the female lead is inexperienced while the male lead is not. The male lead is four years older than the female lead.
2. The male lead is so stubborn he'd keep talking even after being cremated, and he's genuinely awful. But he has only ever been with her, physically and emotionally.
3. Forced pursuit, over-the-top melodrama, over-the-top melodrama, over-the-top melodrama!
4. Powerful male lead and vulnerable female lead. He's unhinged, stubborn, and downright rotten.
Premise: An unhinged young nobleman forcibly claims an honest, sweet girl
