After Three Years as a Nun, the Playboy Heir Spoils Me Rotten

Xu Huaiyang, the young heir of the Jingyang Marquis’s estate and the capital’s little tyrant, had someone he loved. Unfortunately, she couldn’t stand him and never even looked him in the eye. When the Prime Minister’s household fell into trouble, the young woman finally came to him for help. For her sake, Xu Huaiyang botched his very first assignment. His imperial uncle, the emperor, punished him by sending him to the border for three years of training. Before leaving, he asked his mother to propose to the young woman on his behalf. The moment he returned, he would marry her. But when he came back three years later, she had been tortured in a nunnery until she was barely recognizable. Xie Jiaoyue had once been the most noble and aloof young woman in the whole capital. Well-read and cultured, she was a talented woman whom the emperor himself had praised. After her grandfather was imprisoned, she gave herself to the capital’s tyrant to save the lives of the hundreds in the Prime Minister’s household, trading her virtue for a chance at the family’s survival. To protect the family’s reputation, she told no one what had happened. She never imagined her younger cousin would betray her and expose the scandal that had tarnished her good name. Her grandfather cast her out of the family. Her father pressed her head down and forced her to kowtow at a nunnery. After discovering she was pregnant, her mother forced her to drink ten bowls of abortion medicine. Even her grandmother, who had always doted on her, was angered to death by her. Xie Jiaoyue’s body gave out, and her heart turned cold. After barely surviving, she had only half a year left to live. * Later, Xu Huaiyang built a tower within a tower at the Heir’s Estate: a smaller building enclosed within the grand one, where his beloved woman and child would live.