Song of Picking Wei

[A beautiful girl from humble beginnings + a cold emperor with an innocent exterior and a dark side]

[The carved rails and jade stairs dazzle the eye, but is this really a heavenly paradise?]

One time, while selling goods in town, Chen Xiaowei fell for someone.

She never imagined that this small crush would push her into an endless abyss, drag her into one upheaval after another, and make her the plaything of the powerful.

To Liu Heng, Chen Xiaowei was nothing more than a pretty plaything he happened to notice.

Yet this very girl made him lose his heart.

Later, he became crazily possessive, determined to keep her trapped, slowly boiling her like a frog in warm water as she wove her own prison.

In the gentlest voice, Liu Heng said the words that made Chen Xiaowei tremble most: “Weiwei, you promised me you'd stay by my side forever.”

The wealthy, the powerful, the imperial nobility: those carved rails and jade stairs are nothing but gilded cages. To Chen Xiaowei, Liu Heng is salvation, a lifeline, and an abyss she can never climb out of.

[Traditional historical romance, no rebirth or transmigration. The heroine slowly grows from a nobody at the bottom of society.]