The Stepson Breaks a Branch: The Imperial Tutor Bends the Young Madam to His Will

Name: The Stepson Breaks a Branch: The Imperial Tutor Bends the Young Madam to His Will
Author: Hou Mochen Yan

继子折枝：帝师偏折小娘腰

by Hou Mochen Yan (侯莫陈炎)

Status: Completed
Length: 219k Words
Genre: Ancient Romance
Subgenre: Palace & Household Intrigue
Updated: 1y ago
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A wild rose with no regard for rules, and a ruthless, scheming player in the game of power. A bitter fruit is still a fruit, and even a forced match might turn out sweet. He hates how sly as a fox she is, yet lets her shatter all his rules. Lowering his eyes, he gently brushes the bruises on her neck. “From the moment I first saw you, I wanted to lock you away in a golden house and make you my one and only concubine.” He is the one moving the pieces, and yet he is trapped in the game too. When a bloodstained sword presses against her throat, the light in his eyes burns hotter than the blade. “You should have known from the day you bit my fingertip and cried out that it hurt, my dear. You’d never escape me.” “Then let’s fall together.” She hooks an arm around his neck and kisses away the frost between his brows, letting his fingers snap the last spring branch at her waist. He grips her waist and pins her before the dying candle, his voice hoarse and laced with poison. “If only I’d killed you back then… Then you wouldn’t have been able to break this heart of mine apart and stitch it back together as you please.” She tips her head back and bites his Adam’s apple, smiling through her tears. “Xiao Jihan, your fingertips are stained with blood, yet you insist on speaking sweet nothings. But I want those hands of yours: hands that can command the court and protect this wild rose of mine.” Sweetness and heartache intertwined: - He pins her against the writing desk and begs hoarsely, “Does it hurt? But here…” His fingertip presses against his heart. “It hurts even more.” - When he takes a hidden arrow for her, blood soaks the handkerchief embroidered with paired lotuses. “If I die, my dear, will you shed even one tear for me?” - Clutching the jade pendant he gave her, she laughs through her tears. “So when my stepson said he’d ‘take good care of his dear mother,’ he meant trapping me in this gilded cage until I hurt enough to die?” In a nutshell: A forbidden bond between a concubine and her stepson, beginning with murderous intent, consumed by political intrigue, and ultimately driven mad by love and desire.

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