
(Completed!)
Chu Huaiyu once personally offered Lu Zhaoxue to the crown prince's bed, using her as bait to frame Chu Siheng. Once he ascended to the imperial throne, Chu Huaiyu imprisoned Lu Zhaoxue deep within the palace, using favor as her shackles.
Night after night of intimacy in the palace, Chu Huaiyu whispered in her ear, "Zhaoxue, do you hate me? Then stay by my side and take revenge."
But Chu Huaiyu didn't know that from the day Lu Zhaoxue was trapped, he had lost her heart forever.
"Your Majesty, between us now, who is truly the bird in the cage?"
Note:
The first part abuses the female lead, the latter part abuses the male lead. If you want to see the male lead being abused, you can skip to the later chapters. The male lead is truly scum and ruthless in the early stages, but will be severely abused later. The female lead will have children with the second male lead (female lead is not a virgin, male lead and second male lead are).
Domineering and sinister male lead & Stubborn, kind, and resilient female lead & Gentle as jade, cunning second male lead.

Prequel: "Cloud Doctrine". Finished: "She Was Brilliant".
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About this story:
Marriage Before Love / Chasing the Wife into a Field of Ashes
Song Qinggui × Xue Lü
Famous "Gold Digger" × Not So Tyrannical CEO
Synopsis One:
Song Qinggui rarely ever felt her mind go blank, but the day she walked out of the Civil Affairs Bureau with Xue Lü was one such occasion.
How did she end up marrying Xue Lü?—This man who has always looked down on her and is her ex-boyfriend's good friend.
Synopsis Two:
Xue Lü hated Song Qinggui's eyes.
Ambitious yet extremely cold, like a cluster of cold blue fire capable of destroying everything.
Only later did he realize that what he hated wasn't Song Qinggui, nor the fire in her eyes.
He hated how the wildfire burned everything down, yet it wouldn't touch him alone.
Reading Guide:
1. Both leads are each other's first, but the FL has had a few ex-boyfriends, the ML is pure in body and mind.
2. The FL is beautiful, strong, and tragic; the path to becoming a good person is曲折 (winding/tortuous), she is not a righteous and saintly personality, proceed with caution if this bothers you.
3. The ML is an antagonistic simp; he rationally resists the FL, but reason is just reason.
4. You can curse the author, but don't curse the characters, especially the FL, all living beings suffer.
5. Updates start on July 25th, 5 updates and 2 days off per week, updated at 9 PM, off on Mondays and Thursdays.
Content Tags: Modern Romance, Secret Crush, Marriage Before Love, Chasing After Love, Field of Ashes, Redemption
Song Qinggui, Xue Lü, Luo Deng, Zhuang Xiaomeng, Yan Fengqian
Others: Marriage Before Love, Chasing the Wife into a Field of Ashes, Contract Marriage, Redemption
One-line Intro: Marriage Before Love | President Xue, didn't you hate me?
Theme: Loving you is my instinct.

Physical publication rights have been signed. Transmigration.
Warm-hearted, straight, handsome uke x sick, crazy, S-class handsome seme.
This is a custom ABO setting with "strong snatching and grand seizing" (possessive love), a universally beloved protagonist, "dog blood" (melodrama), fierce rivalry, and ambiguous push-and-pull relationships.
Jiang Chaoyang suddenly gained self-awareness. He discovered that he was actually a character in a novel, and in the real world, there was no such thing as ABO genders!
No sooner said than done, the protagonist arrived in this world with a system. His mission was to change the "universally beloved" plot into a 1v1 plot to achieve resurrection.
However, this protagonist... didn't follow the script at all. He refused to conquer the characters and only wanted to kill them all!
Jiang Chaoyang extended his hand like Er Kang, shouting: "Ssstop!!!"
Because the system told him that once the target characters died, the book would be ruined, and as a character in the book, Jiang Chaoyang would also die.
"Fine, the protagonist is slacking off, right?"
Jiang Chaoyang rolled up his sleeves, ready to fight with his one wretched life. If the protagonist wouldn't act, he would.
However, Jiang Chaoyang realized a very serious problem.
"You didn't say that all S-class Alphas were crazy, did you???"
This novel is also known as: "Saving the S-Class Alphas".

This is a dog-blood love story where he loves her, and he also loves her, and she once loved him but now loves him.
Formally turning 32 marks the fourteenth wedding anniversary of Chen Nanxing and Lin Shanglu. Chen Nanxing, who had always been unlucky, received her "gift": a diagnosis report for advanced gastric cancer.
The moment the doctor handed over the diagnosis, Chen Nanxing's phone lit up, displaying countless photos from a private detective clearly documenting her husband Lin Shanglu's betrayal.
With trembling fingertips, she turned off her phone, choosing once again to deceive herself, giving him and herself a slim chance to salvage their relationship.
The carefully prepared candlelight dinner had long grown cold, and the person who was supposed to come home remained missing.
The last glimmer of hope extinguished, Chen Nanxing calmly signed the divorce agreement, attached meticulously compiled evidence, and flew alone to Licheng.
There was no hysteria, no questioning, no entanglement. She only took an old, yellowed photo. In the photo, an eighteen-year-old him embraced a youthful Chen Nanxing, both smiling sweetly at the camera. Between them, there was also a small stick figure drawn with a pen.
The sea breeze of Lihai couldn't blow away the bitterness of the painkillers. Amidst the roaring waves, Chen Nanxing recalled the fourteen-year marriage.
Fourteen years were long, so long that they occupied more than half of her life. Yet, fourteen years were also short, so short that they could be summarized in six words: "three deaths and one serious injury."
Three unborn children and her inability to become a mother became sacrifices in this marriage. At that time, Lin Shanglu was eagerly awaiting the child another woman was about to bear for him. The person who once shielded her from wind and rain had now become a torrential downpour drenching her completely.
Now Chen Nanxing herself was dying, but her habitually unfaithful husband stubbornly refused to sign the divorce agreement.