[Second male lead desperately tries to win her back + reborn revenge on scum + yandere chief secretary + love without reciprocation + coercive possession + pathological devotion to his wife]
In the fifth year of Song Yaoyao’s engagement to Shen Tingchuan, he still refuses to marry her. He even humiliates her in public for the sake of a courtesan, declaring that he will only marry her if he can also take her younger half-sister as his equal wife.
In her previous life, lonely and without anyone to rely on, Song Yaoyao kept giving in. All it got her was Shen Tingchuan taking more and more liberties, favoring his concubine and mistreating his wife.
Living a second life, Song Yaoyao thinks she’s had more than enough.
“Let’s break off the engagement!”
She won’t marry him!
Shen Tingchuan doesn’t believe Song Yaoyao would be willing to end their engagement. He declares, “Song Yaoyao will come crawling back and apologize to me within three days so she can marry me. She’ll agree to let me take an equal wife and concubines!”
But three days pass, then three more, and Song Yaoyao does not come back.
Song Yaoyao approaches Shen Tingchuan’s most respected uncle, Shen Yunzhi, the chief secretary of the Great Yong court, a cold and aloof, noble man, the unattainable flower whom countless young ladies pursue.
She uses every trick she can to make him addicted to her.
“Uncle, will you be my protector?”
No one knows that behind his cold, noble facade, Shen Yunzhi has been obsessively coveting his nephew’s fiancée. Unable to love her or hate her, he longs for her day and night, tossing and turning until he is nearly driven mad.
When he learns of his nephew’s outrageous behavior, he is furious at his nephew’s failure and is about to teach him a lesson, forcing him to honor the engagement properly.
But just then, the darling he has longed for day and night comes to him.
The heroine has no ability to protect herself, so miserable