I Won't Marry into the Ye Family in This Life

[Bickering couple] [Both are each other's first and only love] [Sweet romance]

[The heroine is a straight arrow at first, then turns into a sly little flirt. Her combat ability stays at max the whole time.]

[The hero is handsome and scheming, a noble gentleman who says one thing and means another.]

The Ding family has four formidable generals. General Ding and his three sons all serve in the military. His youngest daughter, Ding Li, lost her mother when she was young and was raised as a fourth son for over a decade.

The Ye family has produced two Grand Tutors over three generations. They are a family of scholars, with the strictest rules. The third son, Ye Lian, is as graceful as an orchid and a jade tree, and follows every rule to the letter. He is the model of a noble young master.

At thirteen, other girls are budding young beauties. Ding Li is a bona fide tomboy.

Worried she won't find a husband, her father and brothers send her to the Ye family in the distant capital for a strict, all-inclusive course in how to become a bride.

...On the very first day at the Ye residence, Ding Li straddles Ye Lian and beats him half to death.

The refined and reserved Ye Lian is utterly humiliated.

From then on, the two become enemies and start doing everything they can to ruin each other.

After half a year of chaos, things get more and more out of hand. The Ye family can't take it anymore, so they send Ye Lian to study at an academy, supposedly to prepare for his exams.

A year later, Ye Lian returns to the Ye residence from the academy. He stares at the woman before him in a daze. Could this graceful, delicate woman really be Ding Li, who used to climb trees and walls and nearly beat him to death with one punch?

...Then, in the dark, she trips him so he lands face-first in the mud, and kicks him hard in the calf.

At last, he is certain. This is Ding Li.

A gentleman takes revenge before the day is out.

That night, in his dream, Ye Lian pins Ding Li down on the intricately carved canopy bed with cranes and flowing clouds, the one his grandmother had given her as part of her dowry. He has his way with her, thoroughly tormenting her.

Theme: Loving every side of you