嬌妻難逃 Wife Can't Escape

by Ming Yue Xiang Bing, 明月像餅

Song Luan transmigrated into a book called “The Powerful Minister” and became the wife of the Male Lead. In the book, the original owner was snobbish, abandoned her son, and finally died in a fire. Song Luan, who had read the book, expressed a panic. Then, she prepared to be a new leaf and hug the male lead’s golden thigh.

Genres: China, Romance, Historical, Novels

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Reviews

[Inn Auni · Rating 5 out of 5]

BEWARE of SPOILER

Song Luan woke up to find herself transmigrated into a novel—as a cannon fodder character doomed to be murdered by her own husband and son. In the original plot, she was painted as a promiscuous woman who abused her child, and naturally, her ending was a tragic one. Determined to change her fate, Song Luan took a different path: she treated her son with kindness and tried to build a peaceful life with her cold, distant husband.

Surprisingly, her husband, Zhao Nanyu, began to fall for her. But fate, cruel as ever, had already sealed her ending. A slow, silent poison had been destroying her from the inside—she only had a few months left.

When Zhao Nanyu learned the truth, grief consumed him. Especially when he discovered that this wasn’t their first lifetime together—they had lived through three lifetimes, all ending in tragedy. This time, he was given another chance. Even if Song Luan couldn’t love him back, he was content loving enough for the both of them.

I used to be confused about what a "yandere" truly meant… until Zhao Nanyu. He’s the textbook case—gentle on the outside, obsessive and terrifying underneath. A true wolf in sheep’s clothing.

This story won’t be for everyone. Some will hate it, some will be completely captivated. It reminded me a lot of Goodbye, My Princess—tragic, emotional, and haunting in all the right ways.

[Juliann · Rating 2 out of 5]

Two stars because it is beautifully written. Only two stars because the entire book is about an unrepentant abuser. It’s abuse and domestic violence, with a small sprinkling of Stockholm Syndrome. It’s not cute, it’s not love. I don’t understand the people who loved this book.

[Jena]

selt note: VERY toxic story of H being obsessed with the h. Story of illfated love. The H will kill the h in her every life, and the h will never love him again after their first life together.



SPOILERS from another reviewer - Book Lover Slytherine - on Novelupdates.

1st life.
The ML is the fvcking bastard. So he basically did a play of loving the MC to get her country. He killed her children while making the MC believing that she's infertile. He basically slashed her parents and brother's head and hang them on the street. When her sister-in-law and niece fled by the secret path this bastard came to MC and lied that he'll save them if she tells him their location. The FL tells him and then he goes and killed them. The 4 year old niece thought he'll save her so she called him to help her. But this bastard slashed her. When the MC knew that the ML is behind her innocent family's massacere she gets crazy and volunteers to die..

But after her death the ML regrets. He thought by getting the neighbour country's throne but he realizes when he was with MC he was the most happiest. But now he has power and wealth but no happiness. Then a taoist came in his dreams and tell him that he'll kill the MC in her every life and the MC will never love him again. So does he still want to meet her? He replied even if he kills her he still wanna meet her. That bastard.


2nd Life
In their 2nd life the MC got married and had a child with him. And they were happy. But one day the MC drown into the pond and remembers her 1st life. She gets crazy while seeing the mu*derer of her family and begun loathing and hatred for the ml. She also ignores her child cause she can't love him as he's the mu*derer's child. So the ML couldn't accept the hatred and first fed her poison and then stabbed her in the heart. Her son locked the door and the ML burned her while smiling. And he and his son lived a good life with the ori fl.

3rd Life
In the 3rdd life MC forgets everything, becomes a modern woman and read her 2nd life in a book. Then the fvcking taoist made her transmigrating in the book. She then tried to fix her relationship with ML and is successful. The ML stops giving her the poison But she still dies because the poison was strong. I really felt pity for ML when I didn't know the 1st & 2nd life.

4th Life
The MC comes back to her modern life but that taoist again transmigrates her in the novel. She didn't feel anything for the ML so she tried to hide with the other pitiful female side character. (Her story is described below) But was caught and the ML chained her. He literally imprisoned her. This time the ml's 1st and 2nd life memories came back. He knew the MC will die in his hands in every life already she died. But he still won't let go of her. This time they had children but the fact is the MC never loved him. She literally give up. She felt attraction for other persons but not him. That's how the story ended.



- It does have a HEA, but the h will never love the H (because the taoist priest casted some magic on her). They will always be together for eternity, he will forever love her obsessively and she will bear it.


- Will need to manually translate this with Chrome browser to read it. Can't find a fan translation. https://www.256wx.net/read/20944/inde...

[Breshna · Rating 2 out of 5]

It was good at the beginning, but got dragged out in the end. And the past lives still doesnt explain why the Song Luan (female lead) would take out her anger on her child and not on Zhao Nanyu (male lead).

[Jem · Rating 3 out of 5]

I picked up this book fully knowing the ML was a yandere and I honestly expected something worse??? Like,,, it wasn't *that* bad.
Though I do believe everything related to their first life (the story about the little princess and the southwest prince) was unnecessary. The story was already angsty enough.
Also, I haven't read the extras yet, but I'll probably only read those about Luan Bao and Ah Yu because I really don't care about anyone else lmao

[Aerys · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not sure what to think of it... Liked 70% of it, hated the other 30%

[Anis · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5, so many cliffhanger. My heart cnt take this! I want HE AND ABSOLUTE ENDING FOR EVERYONE ARGHRHRHDHHDBDBDBDBDBBF
I AM SO NOT CONTENT. I NEED A SEQUEL FRRRRRR

[Cali · Rating 3 out of 5]

I had a hard time deciding how to rate this. I devoured the first 40 chapters. I would say the first half of the book, I was prepared to have this be a solid 4 but then the second half of the book seemed to be redundant with the push and pull and the ending seemed rather ambiguous to me. The first half was refreshing because Song Luan transmigrates into a book she was reading where she was the cheating wife who slowly got poisoned by her powerful, ruthless husband and she was genuinely afraid of him and trying to get on his good side so he would stop poisoning her. She also had to deal with the fallout from her host body's previous actions which was pretty funny. Then Song Luan finds out that this is actually her third reincarnation and in her first reincarnation, she was a princess who was killed by her husband when he rebelled against her and killed her family. He didn't hesitate to shoot an arrow at her heart and right before she died, she made a vow that turned into a curse, that she would never love him again and if she met him in a future life, she would die a miserable death if she was ever fool enough to love him again. Well that husband, is the current ML. It would have been an interesting twist if the solution wasn't that she just stayed with him without feeling any emotion. It just left things feeling unfinished. I did like how possessive the ML was throughout. Overall, it was enjoyable and the translation was good, but I don't think I would re-read it.

[Peggy · Rating 3 out of 5]

這才三十多萬字(不計番外?)的小說, 我是斷斷續續的看了超過三個星期, 且不只一次打算棄了它。原因是前半的情節重複, 不論是宅鬥還是男女主之間的算計, 類同嘅橋段讀過三、四回後就會令人疲乏又不耐煩。另外男主在(大概)第四十章後對女主的心態來個180度, 亦令我有點無所適從。而其間女主從沒放棄離開他的心思--當然作為一個 control freak, 他是知情的!
開初我是被故事的設定吸引: 女主穿書, 作為炮灰女配, 不敢逆反、只求死得不那麽惨烈。於是她在(自以為)不崩壞角色人設的前題下, 作出若干改動, 企圖安全下線。但當然事與願違…
我對女主宋鸞頗有意見。感覺她過份抽離又太過在意自己原本 "讀者" 的身份(因可擁有上帝視覺?), 更不願投入書中一個區區(且不討好)的女配角色--不是說她一定要被男主感動又或是要接納他, 但至少也應該尊重遊戲規則。另外, 她常說男主記仇, 她又何嘗不是呢? 再者, 她亦言行不一: 她承認自己好色, 而男主是書中數一數二的英俊人物, 惟 "原則" 之下, 她就是要對他無動於衷, 甚至不恨不癢! 所以她堅持不去愛男主, 用第一世 "小公主" 臨終的咀咒作為理由、並伸延至之後的兩世, 實在未能令我信服/empathize.
趙南鈺作為 "大" 男主, 也好不到哪裏去。上文已提過他愛上女主的轉折有點突兀, 且他的前世回憶恢復得有點斷斷續續, 於我衝擊力不夠, 故他的醒覺未能打動我(遑論女主)。而他的執拗不只令女主疲憊, 我看着也累得很!
總之, "眼高手低" 是不斷縈繞我的想法。可惜呀, 架構上這是個滿有 potential thus possibilities 嘅故事。
2.75⭐

[Ratih · Rating 4 out of 5]

a heart breaking romance, this is not a romance but a tragedy in disguise...
The novel did end with a HE.... but could it really be called a happy ending?no no no, this is not a happy ending story but a best ending story.lol
recommend for people who aren't looking for a fluffly or light romance story

[armi11ia · Rating 3 out of 5]

Solid 3 stars, didn’t love the book but I enjoyed some parts of it. Some parts were interesting and I guess I liked it. Wished there was more expressions of love from female lead tho. Nonetheless an okay book. Not bad.

[kuromiLoves · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was my first time reading a translated chinese novel. And it was kind of badly translated, but it is fan translated so it is understandable. Though somehow even through everything, the author must have but something in it, because I couldn't stop LOL.

[Sirene Maris · Rating 3 out of 5]

I don't know how I feel about this story. There were parts I enjoyed, but not the moral of the story. It was hard for me to finish reading it, but I did it!

[Elizabeth · Rating 4 out of 5]

Welp, this one made me cry. What a tragedy.

[Blanca · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is an angst book, basically the transmigrator arrives to an abusive relationship with the sadistic male lead. It's honestly frustrating and I don't really find it romantic...

[.⋆｡⋆☂˚｡Polaris ｡˚☽˚｡⋆. · Rating 4 out of 5]

Don't pick it up if you can't handle yanderes. Also check trigger warnings.
Idk why people read these stories then rate them 1 stars knowing they won't like them

3.5/05
I liked the story, this is a captivity story so it might feel boring or repetitive for others but it's good. The feelings the leads had for each other were also very clear. It's wasn't love or hate, it was much more complicated than that for which I applaud the author. it's not easy to write such complicated emotions. This is exactly the kind that I wanted. The abuser and the abused don't fall in love but circumstances force them to be together. It's refreshing after all the boring ass stockholm syndrome tropes in yandere stories.

Overall a nice yandere story, though I would've liked the smut to be a little more detailed, and I wanted to see more of Zhao Nanyu's grief when he lost Luan. i wanted him to be more miserable, honestly... It also would've been nice if she successfully escaped from him once and he had difficulty finding her. The going back to the real world and coming back plot was also a little undercooked.