This one went off track, so here's a short story instead :D
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[Possessive Pursuer x Innocent Flower]
Everyone in the capital said Xie Wan had ruined Wei Lingguang's virtue, all because the seven male companions she kept at her estate each looked uncannily like him.
But what nobody else knew was that he had arranged it all.
"Wanwan said she didn't want to see my face, so I made sure they were always in front of you."
She trembled all over, but he only smiled and kissed away the tears at the corners of her eyes.
"Wanwan, will you choose a counterfeit, or me?"
[Read This First]
1. The male lead is obsessive and gets no redemption arc. He acts completely differently in public and in private.
2. The female lead's family has fallen from power, so her inability to fight back doesn't make her stupid.
3. The adjacent novel, A Guide to a Princess's Escape from a Marriage Alliance, is currently updating, and there's a backlog of chapters!
*Blurb for Don't Rejoice
Meng Zhaohuan had always believed she was the apple of her father's eye, until the imperial decree ordering her marriage alliance arrived.
She cried, threw things, and shouted that she would run away from the wedding. Instead, she was assigned a guard with a cold face and "unwilling" written all over him: Pei Ji.
Young General Pei was utterly aggrieved. He wanted to go to the frontier and fight the enemy, to join his father and elder brother in completing the great deeds they had left unfinished. Instead, he was trapped amid silks and finery, assigned to guard a spoiled, willful princess, and even expected to personally escort her to marry into another kingdom?
It was a disgrace beyond measure!
She thought he was as cold and hard as ice, and he found her delicate and troublesome.
She deliberately made things difficult for him, and he met her with a cold stare. But those glances that neither of them could explain, and the things they confessed by accident in the dead of night, drew their hearts closer even as they resisted.
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At last, he learned the truth: his father and elder brother had been buried beneath the yellow sands. She, in turn, saw through his resolve to go to his death. Thinking she could keep him safe, she slipped a sleeping drug between his lips and had someone send him back to the capital.
"Pei Ji, go to Jiangnan one more time for me."
When he awoke, he was already far from Beidi. And she had set out alone on the doomed road to the enemy kingdom.
She arrived in a foreign land just as its old emperor died. She had been glad to think she would never have to marry someone she didn't love, and that it wouldn't be so bad if her life ended here. But when she looked up, she met his smiling eyes.
"Zhaozhao, why don't you trust me?"
Only then did she learn that he had already been secretly working with the enemy prince, helping him ascend the throne. The old emperor's death had been part of their plan all along.
"Your Highness, it's snowing again."
"Your Highness, it's cold. Let's go home, to our home."
May they be together year after year, like plum blossoms and snow, ever present and ever new.
* Sunshine princess x a taciturn, aloof young general who acts like he can't stand her but secretly loves it, with a brooding, sinister streak
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