The Bride Snatcher: The Fierce Marquis's Daughter

“My lord, please take me as your wife!” Wearing a rumpled wedding dress, she tumbled out of a sedan chair and fell in front of his horse. “Why should I?” He abruptly reined in his horse and looked down at her. ** A career-minded city woman is reborn after a fire as the daughter of a sixth-rank Hanlin Academy scholar whose entire family was massacred. Her uncle takes in the orphan, but schemes to seize the rest of her family fortune and use her beauty to curry favor with the powerful. Her future mother-in-law, desperate to protect her own family, has her tied up and sent in a sedan chair to become an old eunuch's concubine. Fortunately, just as Heaven shuts every door in her face, it leaves her a dog hole to climb through. No, it just happens that a man she can cling to appears before her. Who cares if he's eccentric and obsessively clean? None of that matters. She'll calmly tell the world that useless husbands are a dime a dozen, and reforming one is the way to go. A fiery wife rules the roost now, so who can compete? The deep courtyards of a noble household are full of mysteries. One night, the Third Madam of the Marquis's household is found hanged from a beam. Then maids and concubines in the Third Branch die one after another, all by the same method. Who is the killer? The legitimate son of the Second Branch disappeared one night three years ago and was locked away in a death cell. Three years later, he escapes and returns home, bent on a frenzied vendetta against his family, only to discover that he has fallen into someone's trap. Treasures disappear from the marquis's storeroom, and letters go missing from his study. A female thief throws the household into chaos, and the eldest daughter becomes the prime suspect, yet she takes poison and kills herself on the eve of her wedding? A sneak peek at some great scenes: Scene One: “That hand of yours was awfully bold just now. It looks worth keeping as a collectible!” A man took out a handkerchief and began wiping her already clean, slender hand. “Heh, my hand is small, and my fingers are short. It's hardly worth collecting.” She didn't want to lose a hand at such a young age. And was he going to clean it before cutting it off? “It's clean now. You can keep touching me!” He opened his collar in invitation, and she turned to stone! Scene Two: “Cousin, are you saying you want to become my husband's concubine?” “Yuhan will serve you and Cousin well!” “I knew it. Everything's gotten more expensive these past few years, but people are the one thing that keep getting cheaper! My husband isn't a straw boat, so don't shoot your cheap arrows this way!” Scene Three: On their wedding night, after they had made love, the man held the woman's chin and said, “My wife is the daughter of a Hanlin scholar, raised in a respectable household. Where did you learn the tricks of a brothel girl?” The woman smiled seductively. “Husband, don't you know that brothel girls are enticing when they pretend to be proper, while respectable women only win a man's heart when they let loose once in a while?” This is a one-on-one romance and a doting farming-life story. Watch a modern career woman take on the head of the Embroidered Uniform Guard in ancient times!