The Reluctant Bride Book II

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Qiao Tan Yuan secretly paid Gu Jiao Wu’s ex-girlfriend to leave Gu Jiao Wu. Gu Jiao Wu’s family and Qiao Tan Yuan’s family are close, and arranged Gu Jiao Wu to marry Qiao Tan Yuan.

During Gu Jiao Wu and Qiao Tan Yuan’s marriage they have a baby after Gu Jiao Wu’s drugged by an enemy. Qiao Tan Yuan lies to Gu Jiao Wu she aborted their baby, and agrees to divorce him.

After a series of events, Gu Jiao Wu and Qiao Tan Yuan are trapped together in an elevator, and Gu Jiao Wu unknowingly helps Qiao Tan Yuan give birth to their baby. Gu Jiao Wu demands a DNA test and finds out the truth.

Gu Jiao Wu and Qiao Tan Yuan make a compromise, and agrees to live together to raise their baby. They bond as a family. At first Gu Jiao Wu wants to remarry Qiao Tan Yuan for the sake of their baby, but Gu Jiao Wu slowly falls in love with Qiao Tan Yuan.

Note: The Reluctant Bride Book I & Book II are independent stories of each other.

Associated Names
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Jun Hun Zhi Bang Lai De Xin Niang
军婚之绑来的新娘
Related Series
The Reluctant Bride Book I (Same Franchise)
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First Marriage Then Love (1)
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Reincarnation – Lord is Extremely Hardcore (1)
Recommendation Lists
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09/10/15 trungtnguyen123 c6 part1
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dysry
dysry rated it
March 18, 2016
Status: --
The female lead, QTY, chases away the male lead (GJW) ’s fiance and tricks him into a loveless marriage. Unable to stand it, she divorces him after she falls pregnant and spends the rest of the series running from him after he attempts to bond with their daughter and pursue his newly discovered interest in her. There’s not much actual plot despite how long the series is, so most of the time the story’s static or repetitive.

Despite the unrequited love scenario, the female lead is not particularly sympathetic due... more>> to the ruthlessness and selfishness of her actions, mixed with delusion and self pity. She also doesn’t express remorse, nor does her character change since ironically, what the male lead used to hate about her is the reason why he now loves her.

While the male lead was initially petty and bitter towards her, but manages to fall almost instantly once he removes the hate. However this hate is not entirely unjustified as the MC had wronged him several times. Other than that he’s a typical male lead – stubborn, calculating and easily jealous, and almost as unethical as the MC due to his emotional abuse during their marriage. To extend the story, he’s also slow in understanding his feelings her, but he genuinely loves his daughter.
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I was a little disappointed how fast he got over his ex-fiance, trying to track her down for years just for closure, and since it was such a huge issue for them. After that there was some guilt, but he seemed to move on at light speed. Part of it was because he and the MC were in a later stage of their relationship... and at least he can keep himself happy, not so much anyone else.

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The interaction between the two leads is immature, arguing over the same issues throughout the story, with little progress or actual discussions. While dragging third parties as topics in their conversations to avoid dealing with the underlying issues in their relationship. The MC’s feelings also felt like obsession, rather than ‘love’. Ultimately, they deserve each other. Also can't shrug the feeling that this is pretty much what a romance would be like from the POV of a female antagonist, only in the end, she gets the guy.

2.5 barely readable to pass the time. The side story with his amnesiac friend isn't even worth mentioning. <<less
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Anastrisha
Anastrisha rated it
January 20, 2017
Status: --
Ignore the sexism and sh*t in this story, the story is not good and it's not bad.

The plot of the story -I admit is interesting considering how there's only few novel dedicated to a true antagonist-like character (By true I meant those truly evil characters with no "oh she's actually really good just misunderstand" and shit). So where's the problem you ask? Well it's none other than the characters' behaviours –especially the male lead.

I don't know why but I feel like just to make the two leading roles go back... more>> together or for the story to progress the writer twisted the characters so much that it had become so weird I can't even tell if it's normal or not. Well if you're interested about them, here's a short profile of them.

First of the Female Lead (QTY)
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Now our QTY was a selfish arrogant woman in the past who only wanted for him to only look at her and thanks to that she tried her best to became the type he wanted: brave and strong but unfortunately it seems that it was the opposite at what he said considering his first love was the complete opposite and he had only see this traits of her as being rude –heck he even started to like her when she let him saw her weak state!

By the time they were divorce, QTY had become mature enough that this bad traits of hers are not that visible, and fun fact the reason why I loved this girl is because she accepted the fact that she's bad and that's her and they can't do anything about it but accept it. But I guess because of misunderstanding, insecure, scared and shock, she made a lot of mistake too leading to a lot of miscommunication with the male lead, which in turn made their relationship and situation worse. Then again considering all the tortures and all the pain she got from him, it's no wonder but then again this torture was inflicted to her because of her bad deed and choices, so don't go asking why he's treating you like air when you were the reason why his heart is broken.

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Now for the Male Lead (GJW)
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I don't even honestly know where to start or how to start it.
Thanks to him, QTY became brave and strong just to make him like her, but in the end instead of like the opposite happened.

I think he secretly had loved QTY during their forced marriage but because of the pain and suffering of his burning heart, this thought was kept in a dark place. That's why when he saw her in her night gown he was so moved the he touched her and the funny thing is that QTY's parent didn't even care when they had already sense that their freaking daughter is being r*ped by her ex-husband!

And you know the weirdest sh*t of all? This freaking main lead are so s*upid, QTY paid his ex to leave and now asks why she's being tortured during their forced marriage, now GJW here is more s*upid even daring to ask why she hate him!

And you know I almost laugh when he said he doesn't understand marriage when all along he decided to marry the women he loved. Like if you don't know the meaning then why the f*ck are you doing it with someone? What is that supposed to be a demo to see what the f*ck marriage is?

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Now in short this story in a nutshell is:
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-A guy who claimed he doesn't love his wife hence they went on separate ways leaving his hometown but after almost a year, he went back to his hometown then he magically cared for the baby that he said he doesn't want and suddenly went on pursuing his ex-wife and mol*sting her.

-The girl loved him crazily and did everything she can to break him and his ex-lover apart. Once she did, she forced him to marry her and expected him to love her back when SHE JUST FREAKING TOLD HIM THE REAL REASON FOR THEIR BREAK UP.

-A story about how the Male MC decided to ditch the female who's mostly like a damsel in distress for the antagonist-like character.
Then the wife was abused (no s*xual abuse) for the four years at his hands, then thou she loved him -she was tired hence accepted the divorce.

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Now here I am, wondering why I even read this. But to you reading this, don't worry as in the middle of the story they should be acting somewhat normal by that time.

All in all, ignoring the contradicting personalities, this is a nice novel reminding everyone about the consequences of the action you made, that in every choice you make, consequence would be watching.

Moving on, the grammar and information is sometimes wrong (I assumed it got to do with the translation) I means what with the AH? And the heck sometimes there be this wrong names/information like one time it should be "QTY said" but instead it turned to "GJW said". <<less
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Bib
Bib rated it
September 30, 2016
Status: c162
Not your typical love story with the cliche setting of the poor, kind and hard-working orphan girl falling in love with the rich and handsome male lead and that she gets bullied by the male lead's beautiful, arrogant, and rich childhood friend/ "little sister type". Instead, it actually gives the stage to the unrequited love of the usual antagonist of romance plots aka the infatuated "childhood friend/acquaintance of the male lead". You can see how much the female lead suffers being broken-hearted again and again because of her love for... more>> the male lead since they were young and that the male lead only started caring about her after many years when she is already emotionally scarred. <<less
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...vegan
...vegan
November 10, 2019
Status: Completed
It's not the most amazing novel but for some reason, I always go back to it. I wish the ML would suffer some more because nothing he does can make up for what the FL has gone through. I wish FL had a better ending with someone else. My rant (major spoilers) :

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ML, where to start with him. FL pays his fiancee to leave, she willing left FL did not kidnap or force her to leave. He blames FL, then marries FL then ignores her on a daily basis, makes decisions without notifying her, pretty much isolates her (I would count this as emotional abuse). Something happen, he wrongly accused her of doing something (you would think since he was so "powerful" he would have figured out someone else did it) and they divorced he told her if she was pregnant to get an abortion. A year later she gives birth, he happened to be there, SUDDENLY he adores this child and wants to be in her life (I DON'T UNDERSTAND ML). After interacting with FL he suddenly finds himself attracted to her and wants to remarry her. He did not know why he wanted to marry her or the difference between wanting to give the child a family and loving FL, but he wanted to marry his ex-girlfriend because he loved her (can someone explain ML's thought process to me). He was extremely jealous of all the people that liked FL and would use dirty tactics/ force to get some time with FL.

After some time, FL agrees to marry him again, but he finds out ex-girlfriend died, he doesn't ask FL about it but goes home to FL every day thinking about his ex (just like their previous marriage). Eventually, he found out what happened that year and immediately questions FL near the wedding date. FL flashes back to what happened that year and the years during their marriage and acts out the evil villain role. Their wedding was called off. (I wished it would have ended here). ML later realizes that he still wants to be with FL and chases after her again. FL eventually gets back together with him.

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Issues I had with the ML
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I hated this ML, he automatically blames FL for everything/anything that he believes doesn't go as planned in his life. FL has loved him since she was a child (he and everyone knew) but never has he explicitly told her no, until she finds out that he has a girlfriend. Although she was not pleasant to the ex-girlfriend, she never actually did anything to her or ML until the ex-girlfriend left.

Yes, FL did pay the ex-girlfriend to leave but the ex-girlfriend didn't have to. She could have told ML what was going on, and go from there. Their relationship was not as strong as ML thought but ML blamed FL, instead of questioning the ex-girlfriend, in his mind, the ex-girlfriend will always be innocent and never in the wrong. Instead, he takes it out on FL, believing that she only wants him as a toy even though she put up with so much just for him to look at her.

The ML really pissed me off, when he chases after her he uses so many dirty tactics and claims to love FL. How come if FL uses dirty tactics it's not because of love but an "obsession" while his motives are pure, why is it when she said she loved him, it was just a desire of wanting a toy but when he says it, it's because he truly loves her. His double standards for himself and FL are on a whole other level.

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I wish the author would put more characters siding with the FL, most of the characters side with the ML.
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CatBunn
CatBunn rated it
November 22, 2018
Status: --
I really liked this book and I'll definitely reread it. It's in perspective of the antagonist like character you see in every book that loves the ML. The ML loved the usual damsel in distress kind-hearted type of character but I never rooted for her cause the FL's character was so refreshing. She knows she's anything but kind and she admits that she won't change even if it makes her selfish. What's love without selfishness? During the 3 yrs of marriage with the ML she suffered a lot of mental... more>> and emotional abuse. When she gets pregnant she becomes stronger and hardens her heart. I love how she didn't back down easily. In other books it'd be a different situation. She always faced him head on and didn't let him intimidate her. It's why the ML fell in love with her, after seeing how much she loved their child and the different sides to her.

She didn't let him get away with it easily and he had to continuously chase after her. It wasn't too long or short of a journey but the perfect amount of time. There was also no loose ends and a satisfactory end to everything. They fit well together even though they are similar. The FL has the type of strength you'd wish other main characters had. I guess that's why you can also consider her an antagonist because she fought for her happiness be it through dirty tactics or not and never let her stand down even after the ML suddenly started intruding on her life. You'd think she'd accept him into her life easily because of how much she loves him but thank god this woman has pride and self esteem. <<less
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alexfilia
alexfilia rated it
August 9, 2017
Status: Completed
I didnt like this novel at all orz

Basically everything would have been solved if the characters would just talked with each other.... But nope. They rather run away for a smut filled vacation trip instead yay
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vsukio
vsukio rated it
July 25, 2017
Status: c162
Honestly, I recommend readers to read The Reluctant Bride Book I first since you would get a glimpse of what QTY's original personality was like before she matured up. Some character from the prequel also appears in this story but due to some missing details (if you didn't read the prequel yet), it may confuse some readers later on as the story progresses. The story mainly revolves around QTY's point of view. It starts off when she was near her due date. After GJW discovered the child was his, he... more>> demanded to be involved in daughters life, regardless of what QTY wanted. A lot of conflicts occurred, especially because of QTY's fear that GJW was going to take her precious daughter away from her. It was like a tug of war. By the time GJW fell in love with QTY, he wanted both her and their daughter, but she still didn't want him. If you like a story with angst and heartbreak but a happy end, this story might be for you! <<less
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blackrose21
blackrose21 rated it
November 5, 2020
Status: --
I love this novel so much. It's not perfect yet it's endearing.

The MC is so different than the normal "naive" character and yet you can't help but like her and root for her.

The romance is amazing and believable. It's both passionate and sweet.

Truly recommended and please give this novel a chance!

Overall, it's
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jennamt4
jennamt4 rated it
December 8, 2019
Status: c52
I didn't read Book I first and went head first into this book which was very confusing. The main leads from Book I make several appearances throughout Book II and there are a few side characters too that probably got their introduction in Book I so Book II doesn't explain in detail who they are. I read up to Ch 52 and at this point, I don't think I'll be continuing.

I'm not really fond of any of the characters in this book at all. I dislike MC a bit more... more>> than ML. I'm annoyed that everyone's giving him crap for the psychological torture he gave her during their marriage (refusing to sleep with her and ignoring her for the 3-4 years they were married) but no one took into account that ML was in love with another woman whom he was planning on marrying, MC paid the woman to leave ML when she finds out that the woman has ovarian cancer and would be infertile but instead of telling ML this, she tells him that the woman is a gold digger, then when ML was drunk due to his heartache, MC made it looked like he took advantage of her (woke up in bed together the next morning), leading them to marry. ML obviously hates her for her deceit so when they slept together before divorcing, he tells her to get an abortion if she becomes pregnant. So instead of taking the morning-after pill, she allowed the possibility of conceiving leading to her becoming pregnant and keeping it a secret from ML. Throughout her pregnancy, she had a friend who's been in love with her forever by her side but despite this fact, everyone chastised ML that he wasn't there for her pregnancy and how much she suffered alone. I understand why ML is so cold towards MC. MC had to learn the hard way that you can't force someone to love you just because you love them. On the other hand, I felt it was unrealistic that all of a sudden ML didn't hate MC like he thought he did after witnessing her determination to save the baby. <<less
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Krystal Liu
Krystal Liu rated it
August 8, 2018
Status: Completed
To be honest, this is not the best story I have read but for some reason, it keeps making me return to the moment of where the MC accept the ML again after he hurt her so much. There are some scenes in the story plot line that doesn't actually make that much sense but it's fun to read within a day or two.
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Dayang_Dyan
Dayang_Dyan
July 24, 2020
Status: Completed
This is really emotionally tiring. The plot is okay if the trivial matters were not included. The two arguing reached up to 60 chapters with no progress except them sleeping together. And then there's the side story. I was a little curious at first but afterwards I was disappointed. If this was shortened and they focused on the main plot, I would give this a higher rating.

The 2 point rating is for some smut and the translation effort.

1 point for the plot

However, I still completed reading this because it is... more>> entertaining. Also, one of the good things about this novel is women weren't suppressed like any other novels. <<less
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christine09
christine09 rated it
November 9, 2019
Status: Completed
A lot of scenes were just cringe worthy. As the story progresses, the male lead looks more and more like a lecher. He has another woman he loves for a very long time and is somehow confused with his own emotions... but still wants to have s*x with the female lead. There was one chapter that the female lead sprained her ankle after trying to run away from him but he still forced himself on her. Yuck.
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Lucy31
Lucy31 rated it
June 17, 2019
Status: Completed
Though a lot of scenes were kinda lame in the story?, (you can ignore the side story if you didn't read the book1) I enjoyed the female character's growth how she accepted herself as she was & decided to live for herself & her baby instead of clinging to the male lead.

She's arrogant, rude, self-centred but I loved how she admitted she was bad, never trying to put on the damsel in distress act, she accepted how she was, she matured, she learnt from her mistakes and tried... more>> to move on ?

I truly enjoyed reading the reviews on this story, had a good laugh because the characters deserved getting all those scorns! ??? <<less
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Mynbns
Mynbns
March 1, 2019
Status: Completed
Done reading!! I didnt think I would finished this without skipping. I cried in the beginning of their story. Im so heartbroken of what happened to Tang Yuan. And she isnt the typical clumsy, dense and innocent FL, Tang Yuan is the type of FL who is arrogant, strong and heiress type and the same kind of character that you would hate to death in some other novels, those who acts as the villainess. But in this novel, you would see that even if she has that kind of personality,... more>> she deserves to be happy because she is only human and she cant help it that she loves the ML. You would hate the ML for being such an a**hole.

Heart really is the hardest thing to understand. <<less
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