He Panicked After I Stopped Pursuing the Young Preceptor

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[Bright and forthright princess x older, unhinged powerful minister]

Lin Huayue, the only daughter of the Prince of Wuning, had accompanied her father in defending the northern frontier since childhood. At last, the northern campaign succeeded, and they returned triumphantly to the capital.

The whole country celebrated, but the emperor grew deeply wary of the Prince of Wuning, whose achievements threatened to overshadow his own.

With danger closing in on every side, Lin Huayue turned to Jiang Xufeng for help.

Jiang Xufeng, the emperor's trusted confidant and Grand Preceptor, was elegant and mild-mannered, yet deep in thought and devious in action. Everyone feared this smiling fox.

Lin Huayue swallowed her pride and repeatedly went out of her way to approach and ingratiate herself with Jiang Xufeng, hoping to win him over and help her father, who knew little about court affairs, plan his next move.

She stopped him in the garden, and he turned and left.

She invited him to travel south with her and enjoy the scenery, but he said he was busy.

She took him to her hometown for his birthday, and he said, "I never celebrate my birthday."

Lin Huayue was furious!

She was a princess, and she had never had to humble herself like this before.

Fine. If he won't do, she'll find someone else! She's done sucking up to him!

On the very night Lin Huayue went looking for another ally, Jiang Xufeng pressed her against the Star-Gazing Terrace. His usually gentle face was now dark with menace.

"Lin Huayue, you were the one who came after me. Don't think you can leave now."

Jiang Xufeng had risen from obscurity to become the Grand Preceptor. Reading the situation and avoiding danger had become second nature to him.

There was a girl who had been deeply engraved in his heart ever since she saved him eight years ago.

But the girl had a fiancé, and her father was someone the emperor regarded as a thorn in his side.

For eight years, Jiang Xufeng had ignored and kept his distance from her to avoid getting caught in the crossfire, forcing himself not to make a misstep.

Yet he had never imagined that the girl would come to him herself.

Under the gaze of those bright almond-shaped eyes, Jiang Xufeng's reason crumbled completely. Obsession and love spread like wildfire, burning on without end.

The following is a preview of an upcoming story.

The Heir Is So Hard to Handle

A powerful man brought to his knees | The pursuit of a wife after losing her

A delicate, tearful beauty x a gloomy, obsessive heir

Whenever the Marquis of Jin's heir, Zhang Jie, came up in conversation, officials with daughters would sigh regretfully. "Lord Zhang is powerful and has everything going for him, but he's so pure and indifferent to women. Is he planning to follow his father and become a monk?"

When the rumor reached Zhang Jie, he just smiled. What he wanted was overwhelming power and limitless riches. Women who tried to climb the social ladder by attaching themselves to him only annoyed him.

That annoyance reached its peak when he saw the vague outline of a shapely figure beneath the curtains of his bed.

Another woman sneaking into his bed. Will they never stop?

Zhang Jie lifted the gauze curtains. A young woman lay there with one shoulder exposed, her eyes brimming with tears as her slender fingers trembled while clutching his sash. He looked down at her, his eyes filled with disdainful indifference.

"Get dressed and leave."

The young woman fled in humiliation, but those beautiful, tear-filled eyes took root in his heart and haunted him like an inescapable curse, everywhere and always.

With her exceptional skill at the zither, Yun Qiyue had risen above the many official courtesans at the Music Academy. All the scholars and gentlemen of the capital had fallen under her spell.

Seeing the powerful men who spent fortunes on her, Yun Qiyue felt nothing but disgust. She hated these greedy, hypocritical scoundrels more than anything, and that failed attempt to sneak into a man's bed was the greatest disgrace of her life.

But why had Zhang Jie helped her save her sister? Oh, it was so he could take her as a plaything in his bedchamber, and keep her hidden away, too.

Yun Qiyue had thought Zhang Jie would soon grow bored and let her go. But this refined, moon-bright Lord Zhang didn't seem to have any intention of doing that?

That wouldn't do. Yun Qiyue was getting anxious.

She splashed boiling water on him, and he praised her skill.

She called him a swine who abducted women, and he smiled and told her to report him to the authorities.

Yun Qiyue: "..." What kind of person is he?!

Only after she faked her death did she finally manage to escape Zhang Jie.

The world without Yun Qiyue was dim. Zhang Jie walked alone, with no end in sight ahead and no road home behind him.

Then one day, he unexpectedly learned that she was still alive! In that moment, the clouds parted and spring breezes stirred the willow branches.

But she was already married, with a child, and living in harmony with her husband.

Overwhelming joy and jealousy twisted him beyond recognition.

So what if she was married? He could just kill that adulterous husband.

So what if she had a child? He would raise the child himself.

Even his power and wealth could all be hers to use.

All he asked was that she be willing to become the bird in his cage, or his wife.

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Theme: Where there's a will, there's a way