Spring Does Not Stay

Precious pre-orders, please. A sweet story of childhood sweethearts—after the rigid male cousin breaks down.

[Synopsis]: The night the Xie family hung white streamers, inside the second young master Xie's study, lamplight swayed in the wind, and shadows intertwined on the wall.

The man's tall figure leaned down, engulfing the delicate, weeping woman entirely.

The woman, dressed in a white mourning gown, lowered her head and wept, pitifully captivating.

"My brother has only been dead for two days, and Sister-in-law is so impatient..." The man mercilessly gripped her chin. As a red mark appeared, he let go with a low sneer.

"It seems my brother died truly unjustly."

His brother had lost his life saving this woman. With his dying breath, he had entrusted him to take good care of her and marry her into the family.

Who knew that before he could even speak, this woman, for the sake of wealth and glory, immediately threw herself at him.

He thought, his brother died a truly unjust death. It wasn't worth it for such a woman.

She had nothing going for her except for her face.

For Xie Linyuan, initially, he indeed loathed and hated her, wishing he could make her pay for his brother's life.

Later, he forced himself upon her night after night. During the joys of the bedchamber, he would always lick her tears and mutter to himself...

Why? Why won't you open your eyes and look at me?

I look just like him, after all.

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Xie Linyuan hated three things in his life: First, his sister-in-law.

Second, his sister-in-law's smile.

Third, her smile—specifically that it is never directed at him.

PS: 1. Forced entanglement, dog-blood (melodramatic)追妻火葬場 (chasing his wife to the gates of hell), not a sweet story.

2. The male lead is crazy; enter with caution.

Please pre-order my next book—After the Rigid Male Cousin Breaks Down.

[Pre-order Synopsis]: At seven years old, because of a peach blossom cake, Yaoyao was successfully bribed by her cousin and became his little follower and lackey. From then on, Yaoyao followed her cousin blindly. If anyone spoke ill of him, she would be the first to jump out, hands on hips, to curse back. If anyone slandered him, she would definitely throw stones.

At seventeen, because of a moment of heart fluttering under the peach blossoms after getting drunk, Yaoyao acted like a ruffian and forcibly kissed her cousin. She also said brazenly that she would give him a warm home in the future. After saying that, she hugged his neck and smacked several satisfied kisses on him.

His jade-like handsome face instantly flushed red.

For the first time in his life.

Her cousin is really good-looking.

If only he were hers.

He must be Yaoyao's only.

With beauty before her, when Yaoyao tried to act like a ruffian again, relying on her drunkenness, her cousin, who usually spoiled her rotten, pushed her away. He even spoke seriously to her, saying that he treated her like a real sister and that such behavior was against propriety.

He said she had overstepped.

Yaoyao wilted instantly, and she sobered up a lot. She cried her eyes swollen that night. The next day when she woke up, she immediately decided—she didn't want her cousin anymore; she would go find other good-looking young men.

Her cousin was just too detestable!

The young master of Minister Li's family wasn't bad; he often did her homework for her and took her out to play everywhere. That little general who had just returned from war wasn't bad either, so impressive. And that little marquis...

All of them were better than her rigid, old-man of a cousin!

So, Yaoyao began to flit through the flowers, picking her ideal husband.

She drifted through various banquets and effortlessly had a crowd of suitors falling at her feet.

She was dazzled by the choices. After picking and choosing, she finally selected one person and prepared to exchange tokens of affection at the banquet, agreeing on an auspicious day for him to come propose. However, that person couldn't find her anywhere.

Behind the rockery in the garden, in a cramped space where the lamplight and moonlight couldn't reach, she was pinned against the stone wall by her rigid cousin, his hand gripping her waist.

She couldn't struggle, nor could she move.

"What exactly does Yaoyao see in that man? Tell big brother, will you..."

The usually cold, self-controlled, rigid, and abstinent man whispered coaxingly in her ear, luring her to speak.

He was freezing cold, a chill that overshadowed the moonlight, exuding an extremely low and dangerous aura.

This cousin was too unfamiliar.

Yaoyao was frightened silly, trembling unconsciously, unable to answer his words, nor did she know what he was saying.

His gaze sank bit by bit.

The man's thumb wiped over the girl's wine-stained lips inch by inch. The corners of his eyes were tinged with red provoked by some intense longing. He spoke gently and hoarsely in her ear.

Coaxing, luring, begging...

"Big brother is fine too."

"Big brother will definitely do better than anyone else."

"Please, please..."

"Okay?..."

PS: 1. The female lead is a universally adored cute girl, a sweet story of childhood sweethearts. Pure sweetness.

2. Ancient setting. The male and female leads are cousins.

Content tags: Nobility, Love at first sight, Match made in heaven, Dog-blood, Marry first love later.

Su Muying, Xie Linyuan.

One-sentence intro: I look just like him, after all.

Theme: Rainbows are easily scattered and glass is fragile.