Born with a bewitching beauty, the Prime Minister’s legitimate daughter VS a bloodthirsty, unhinged prince’s illegitimate son
Wen Yingzhao is Xiao Nanyun’s beloved, but his elder brother, Xiao Nanlin, was engaged to her when they were children. He schemed to sabotage their engagement and succeeded in making himself Zhaozhao’s fiancé instead, as her live-in husband.
One day, he dreamed that Zhaozhao married someone else. The groom wasn’t him.
When he realized who the man was, he beat him up. Every time he had the dream, he beat him up again.
The second young master of the Xiao family looks gentle and refined. At first, he’s frail and sickly; later, he becomes an obsessive madman and a jealous lover, a wolf in sheep’s clothing who can never go back to being a sheep.
Wen Yingzhao was born with a bewitching beauty. She’s a bona fide little vixen, with a pair of alluring fox eyes that Xiao Nanyun loves most.
Xiao Nanyun gets jealous of every man who appears around Zhaozhao, young or old. His obsession grows deeper, and his possessiveness grows stronger.
Zhaozhao thinks Xiao Nanyun needs to calm down, so after they marry, she runs away while pregnant.
When Xiao Nanyun finds out, he pursues her relentlessly, his eyes bloodshot as his inner demons grow stronger by the day.
After finding Wen Yingzhao, Xiao Nanyun lights every candle in the pitch-black room. He cuts his own wrist and licks the blood from his dagger.
“Zhaozhao, don’t worry. I’d never hurt you.”
“Are you going to run again?” He cuts himself once more.
Zhaozhao decides to soothe him, and the two enjoy a peaceful stretch of life together.
Their child is already three when Zhaozhao disappears again. This time, Xiao Nanyun takes their daughter with him to look for his wife.
Later, she becomes an empress, and he becomes her royal consort.
