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[Double C, Both Chaste]
[No Substitute Bride, No Revenge]
[The main story is about family support, not just romance]
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Zhan Yanru is a girl unwanted by her father and unloved by her mother.
Yet, while she was still naive and inexperienced, she met a proper gentleman who was willing to put her on a pedestal. She knew little about him, only that his name was Zheng Jingcheng, and that he was disciplined, courteous, and scrupulously virtuous.
She likened him to a clear stream flowing from a snowy mountain, untouched by a speck of dust. He was also a solitary crane in the heavens, bright as the moon, someone she could admire from afar but never reach.
But on the day Zheng Jingcheng sent her his formal marriage proposal, she hurt him deeply.
That year, she was sixteen, and he was nineteen.
She was preparing to marry.
He was embarking on his official career.
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Years later, Zheng Jingcheng was a high-ranking official, a favored prodigy whom the emperor relied upon.
Yet he remained uninterested in marriage. Even when the emperor arranged a match for him, he went through with it halfheartedly. On his wedding night, he avoided his bride without even lifting her veil.
On the second day of the wedding, he firmly told his elders, "Once the wedding period is over, I will divorce my new bride on the grounds that we have no children."
After all, the bride was the daughter of his political enemy. His elders tried to dissuade him, but to no avail, and finally agreed to his decision.
Who could have guessed that the moment he finished speaking, his bride would enter the room and his heart, hard as stone, would suddenly lurch, causing him to drop his teacup?
A man who had never known defeat suddenly lost his customary composure.
He never dreamed that his new bride would be the very person he didn't even dare dream about!
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The two tacitly agreed to keep their distance.
But little by little, Zheng Jingcheng was caught off guard when Zhan Yanru suddenly confessed her feelings, then secretly teased him in the middle of the night.
She drew him in and pushed him away, stirring the long-sealed heart of the proper gentleman until it swayed and trembled.
Until one day, Zheng Jingcheng saw his wife release a flower lantern with another man, while his elders excitedly told him that the emperor had approved their separation.
That night, a dim candlelight finally flickered in Zhan Yanru's bedroom.
She had slipped off her silky undergarment and was taking a thick robe from the rack to go out.
Hearing the beads behind her chime, she turned serious and instructed her servant, "Go ask whether my husband is asleep. I want to borrow half an incense stick from him."
The servant did not answer. Only footsteps drew nearer, and a man's voice suddenly came from behind her.
"Then may I borrow a whole night from my wife?"
She whipped around in shock. The proper gentleman was already standing right in front of her.
He, he, he had actually sneaked into her bedroom in the middle of the night!
(Not a substitute-bride trope. Romance and plot both matter. Content warnings are at the end of Chapter One.)
Theme: Rise from the ashes like a phoenix, reborn through fire.
Such as: I have money in hand and I can leave the world
Xiao Zheng is quite thoughtful, but if nothing unexpected happens, I feel like there will be another big plot 🤩
Human nature is complex, but this kind of character can only be used as a female supporting character, and it must be the kind that does not end well in the end. The female protagonist can try to figure out how to solve the problem with the male protagonist in order to survive for herself and her mother, instead of being smart, stupid and bad and covering up the murderer again and again. This is as disgusting as those women who fall in love with murderers and criminals. Besides, if you protect the devil, you will definitely survive? You don't need to tell me that you don't want to read it. Since you choose to publish an article, you have to accept readers' questions. Are you telling those middle school readers who have not yet formed their three views, is this the right thing to do?
Yan Ru looks at you with your brows 🧋
Ah, ah, is this a foreshadowing of life experience?
The two of them seemed to be sick, especially the heroine. I thought it was reasonable for such a talented woman to read so many books, but she read all the books into the dog's belly. Oh, her mother is a human being and her family is a human being, so so many women who died innocently are not human beings? It's okay to stab the male protagonist in the back many times and hinder the progress of the case. Now, he still wants to cover up. He has no righteousness in his heart and is worse than a tiger!!
A very real dilemma of choice
Xiao Zheng's identity recognition is very good. Like it.
When can I live happily?
When soldiers come to block it, when water comes and earth comes to cover it up, Yan Ru will definitely do it.