[Resilient commoner heroine x Mad-dog aristocratic hero]
Xie Mengyi transmigrates into the body of a poor scholar’s daughter. She and her childhood sweetheart are in love, and they’re about to get engaged. Her life should have been happy and peaceful, but through a twist of fate, she catches the eye of a powerful noble. That very night, her parents send her in a small sedan chair to Wang Xuanzhi’s villa.
Wang Xuanzhi is born into the Langya Wang clan, with exalted status and an elegant, distinguished bearing.
That day, dressed in white and leaning against the upper floor of a building, he wears a faint, distant smile. But when he sees the young woman below, a glimmer of interest appears in his eyes.
Her features are like a portrait drawn in the misty rain of Jiangnan, delicate and luminous, irresistibly captivating. At first, she means little to him, but she avoids him like the plague time and again, turning his passing interest into an obsession he can’t let go of.
When they meet again, she has become a bird in his cage, a pet in his hand. Her life and death are at his whim.
In the hazy night, she wears only a plain sleeping gown, her long black hair spread across the pillow. As he watches her tearful, anguished expression, Wang Xuanzhi smiles gently and strokes her back as if to comfort her, while twisted pleasure wells up inside him.
Everyone says that Chunhua Court is lavish and beautiful, and that Miss Xie is so blessed. But when she looks at the square patch of sky hemmed in on every side, all she feels is suffocation and dread.
The world sees Wang Xuanzhi as a gentleman as beautiful as jade, like a cool breeze beneath a bright moon. But Xie Mengyi sees through that gentle mask and catches a glimpse of the demon lurking within.
She fears his unpredictable temper and hates the arm that shackles her waist late at night.
That fear reaches its peak one night.
On the other side of a single wall, a pack of vicious dogs tears her childhood sweetheart apart. Inside, she weeps as Wang Xuanzhi forces her to submit to him, the screams echoing outside.
Wang Xuanzhi smiles and brushes the damp hair at her temple. “Mengyi, listen. Your beloved is suffering for you!”
Xie Mengyi hates him to the depths of her soul, but there is nothing she can do.
Her chance comes on the day Wang Xuanzhi marries a noblewoman from a prestigious family.
Dressed in red and mounted on a white horse, Wang Xuanzhi rides out to meet his bride, his gaze sweeping casually over the surroundings. Xie Mengyi, disguised and fleeing, lowers her head and barely avoids his eyes.
As they pass each other, her heart pounds wildly. In the end, she escapes Chang'an without incident.
It takes Xie Mengyi six months to go from living in constant fear to finding peace in her daily life.
One day, there’s a knock at the door. She’s about to go out and buy tofu as usual when she sees the face outside. The blood in her entire body turns to ice.
“Mengyi, why are you being so naughty, leaving without a word?” His hand strokes her slender, fragile neck as he smiles affectionately. “Let me think about how I should punish you...”
Xie Mengyi goes pale.
2025/09/03
P.S.
1. One-on-one romance. Both leads are sexually inexperienced. Happy ending.
2. A possessive, domineering romance with a chase-to-win-her-back arc.
3. Set in a fictional Tang dynasty, with extensive original worldbuilding.
Theme: Everyone deserves equality and freedom.
