Her Spring Break

/She takes her spring break, but he comes for her/

/How a delicate young widow tamed a proud, ruthless attack dog who had intended to take her by force/

Everyone said Lan Zhiyi was lucky.

Though born to a humble family in Jiangnan and widowed, she had caught the eye of a marquis's heir, who defied his family to take her as his favored concubine.

But less than two years after she entered the household, the heir died unexpectedly.

Having lost two husbands in succession, Lan Zhiyi became a husband-killing harbinger of bad luck.

The marquis's household wanted to bury Lan Zhiyi alive.

They wanted her to be buried with the heir.

Lan Zhiyi refused.

On the day of the heir's funeral, rain poured down and violent winds swept through the land.

Like a startled bird, Lan Zhiyi fled in panic through the outskirts of the capital, with the marquis's household closing in on her.

A group of riders suddenly appeared.

On the central one of the six carriages hung a string of golden, splendid wind chimes.

Lan Zhiyi desperately rushed forward and knocked on the carriage door, sobbing, "Please, my lord, save me!"

*

Chu Hanyan's ancestors were founding heroes who had been granted the title of prince of a different surname. Their descendants had inherited the title for generations.

But the new emperor wanted to curtail the power of the fiefdoms, and chose the Chu family to make an example of.

Chu Hanyan was coming to the capital to bare his fangs and intimidate the emperor.

Who could have guessed that on the way back, a little bird would stumble into his carriage?

The young woman had been running through the rain for a long time, and was soaked through.

She was too focused on begging for help to realize that her raven hair gleamed, her skin shone like jade, and her waist was so slender it could be circled with a single hand.

In Chu Hanyan's eyes, she was like a glowing coal on a winter night,

setting the man's cold, hard heart ablaze.

He put away the fury surrounding him and smiled. "I'm here. No one dares lay a hand on you."

"Don't be afraid, young lady."

*

The new emperor was incompetent and benighted. Heroes rose up across the land to vie for supremacy, and in the end, Prince Qi, Chu Hanyan, took the capital.

The nobles trembled as they welcomed their new emperor.

But the marquis's wife discovered that the woman Prince Qi personally helped down from his carriage was the lowborn daughter-in-law who had gone missing from her own household.

She shrieked, "A husband-killing jinx like you has no place here!"

Before she could finish, Prince Qi's icy, terrifying gaze swept over her.

He took the young woman's hand in his arms. "My wife is blessed with a noble fate. A short-lived person like you could never compare to her."

Now that he was emperor, he and A Yi were surely a match made in heaven.

Lan Zhiyi curled a finger.

The Prince Qi who had just been radiating murderous fury turned into a docile attack dog and obediently followed her.

/She takes her spring break, but he comes for her/

/How a delicate young widow tamed a proud, ruthless attack dog who had intended to take her by force/

Theme: Know how to train a dog, and enjoy a happy life.