After the Cousin Lady Gets Engaged, the Aloof Top Scholar Turns Dark

[The Second Young Master of the Xie Family: A Withered Tree Blooms Again] Everyone says the Xie family’s top scholar is elegant and aloof, peerless in his cool restraint. No one knows he has fallen for a penniless orphan girl. After much deliberation, he finally decides to take her as a concubine, only to discover she’s already betrothed! Overnight, the celebrated top scholar seems to go mad. He spends his days plotting how to steal her away and ruin her engagement. On her wedding day, Xie Changling clutches her sleeve, clutching at his chest and sighing as if he’s about to die. “Yue’er, won’t you comfort me?” / [Shen Family’s Orphan: In Spring, One Must Revel to the Fullest] The Xie family all privately agree that the girl is too alluring to make a suitable wife for a respectable family. Shen Zhaoyue is therefore extremely cautious, but fortunately, fate is kind: she becomes engaged to Xie Qingzhou, an unloved concubine-born son of the fourth branch of the family. But as the wedding draws near, Shen Zhaoyue can’t help thinking the top scholar is acting strangely. Why does he glare at her so fiercely every time he sees her? Has he gone mad? On her wedding day, it is the top scholar who lifts her veil. Hearing him say, “Yue’er, won’t you comfort me?” Shen Zhaoyue is terrified, convinced his madness has only gotten worse!