[A ruler steals his subject’s wife + the second male lead’s desperate pursuit + sweet romance + mutual salvation + two unhinged leads + one-on-one, both devoted only to each other + episodic Strange Tales]
A gloomy, disabled wife of a fallen family × a ruthless, merciless tyrant with insomnia
Shen Nanzhuo had loved the young marquis Lu Heng for six years. She treated his illness, helped him seize power, and took arrows for him. When her family fell into ruin, she invoked his debt to her and married into the marquis’s household to escape danger.
She thought the man she loved returned her feelings. Instead, her legs were crippled, and she became infamous throughout the imperial capital as a jealous shrew.
Lu Heng loved someone else. Trapped in the inner household, she grew numb from the same unchanging days, one after another.
In just three years, he took another wife of equal standing and forgot his vows.
Then one day, she suddenly discovered that she could stay lucid in her dreams...
From then on, she gleefully slaughtered in her dreams and wrote stories in the waking world to torment scoundrels.
She had thought the world of dreams had nothing to do with reality, never guessing that the man she could never shake off in her dreams was the current emperor!
It was said that the current emperor was as beautiful as a woman, had killed his father and elder brother, and was cold, ruthless, and capricious. The officials lived in fear of him.
Yet he suffered from insomnia and debilitating headaches.
At the palace banquet that day, Marquis Lu arrived with his two wives, but midway through the event, his first wife vanished.
No one knew that deep within the pavilion gardens, the tyrant was tenderly kissing his disabled subject’s wife, his eyes filled with sick obsession. “I found you, my pearl.”
