After the Substitute Marriage, the Young Lady Was Kissed Senseless by a Sinister Minister

【Love After Marriage + Both Pure】 After living under someone else’s roof for three years, Qi Xuning was forced into an arranged marriage. Her relatives put on a respectable face for outsiders, claiming it was a match with a prominent family and that they treated her well. Only when the wedding date drew near did she learn that the man she was to marry was Zhao Yanqi, a man whose name struck fear throughout the court and the realm. He had returned from the battlefield with old injuries. Cold, taciturn, and ruthless in his methods, he was feared even by the emperor. This marriage would surely be like adding fuel to the fire. The whole city waited to see how things would end for her, certain that this helpless orphan would not last three days after marrying into the prince's residence. But when lanterns shimmered along ten miles of river and thousands of floating lanterns bearing her name drifted downstream, everyone finally understood. Everyone knew Zhao Yanqi as aloof and noble, a powerful man with no weaknesses. Outside, he was decisive and merciless, cold and distant, keeping every emotion in check. But no one knew that with Qi Xuning, he yielded at every turn, asking only that she live in peace year after year.