[Mutually devoted couple + possessive pursuit + groveling redemption + happy ending]
Qin Yiqing followed her widowed mother into a second marriage with a marquis’s household, becoming an outsider in an awkward position within the family.
Faced with the ridicule and mistreatment of the household, she endured it at every turn so as not to make things difficult for her mother. To her surprise, she caught the eye of Shen Sizhao, the heir to the marquis’s title.
Yiqing knew that she and Shen Sizhao were worlds apart, and she had no desire to become his concubine. She carefully humored him while using his influence to get herself out of trouble, thinking that once she married someone else, he would give up on her.
But Yiqing underestimated Shen Sizhao’s possessiveness. The day he learned she was going to meet potential suitors, he smiled with careless abandon, but his voice was cold as ice. “Qingqing, you shouldn’t be thinking of leaving me.”
Shen Sizhao looked at the seemingly obedient young woman before him and saw straight through her intentions.
He couldn’t help recalling the night they had first met.
The young woman’s fair face was smeared with blood, and the corpse at her feet had not been properly disposed of, yet she looked at him with unruffled composure...
[A beautiful, cold-hearted heroine × a ruthless, deranged hero]
It's beautiful, I like forced love the most [Adoration]