Lost in the Cage

[Traditional historical romance + possessive love + groveling pursuit + household intrigue + mad characters + medicine + nation and family + brother-in-law and sister-in-law + love rivals] Ye Nanxing has been in love with Shen Du, the second young master of the Yong’an Marquis household, since childhood. When she was eighteen, a flood struck her hometown. Armed with a keepsake, she went to the capital and successfully married into the Yong’an Marquis household. After the wedding, she devoted herself to serving her parents-in-law and caring for her husband. She was the household’s refined and gentle daughter-in-law, renowned for her virtue throughout the capital. But no one knew that this seemingly obedient woman had once shared a shameful past with Shen Che, her husband’s younger half-brother. Only when Shen Du decided to take another wife as an equal did Ye Nanxing quietly leave with a divorce agreement. That was when she became entangled with Shen Che once more. In a farmhouse courtyard, the man who had always been so proper and self-controlled trapped Ye Nanxing against him, murmuring again and again, “Jiang Jiang, you were the one who provoked me first. So you can only belong to me.” * As the Yong’an Marquis household’s illegitimate son, Shen Che had always wanted nothing but power. That day, at a temple, he encountered Ye Nanxing on the run. He knew she was his sister-in-law. He had no intention of saving her. But when she stumbled into his arms, tears shimmering in her eyes as she pleaded with him to save her, his heart softened all the same. Later, he often thought how wonderful it would have been if he had been the one betrothed to her. In the end, he came to his senses. If he couldn’t scheme his way into having her, then he would have to take her by force.