[Second chance at love + possessive pursuit + both leads’ first and only love + emotionally conflicted heroine + obsessive hero + some angst + both kill their fathers]
The day Pei Xianyu was brought back to the Pei residence after her mother’s disappearance, trouble was already waiting for her.
Her stepmother was a hypocrite, her father pretended to be compassionate, and before she could even drink her hot tea, her half-sister accused her of having an affair with her uncle. Meanwhile, her full brother had been spoiled into a useless, heartless wastrel.
What she never expected was that this uncle looked exactly like the former husband she had cast aside with a letter of divorce.
He liked sneaking into her bedroom at night and grew more and more brazen. To get back at her, he tormented her night after night.
She had no choice but to play along, drawing him in by holding back. Taking advantage of Pei Zhao’s growing obsession with her, she used his influence to bring down the people in the Pei household who wanted her dead and uncover the truth behind her mother’s disappearance.
Pei Zhao had thought he would spend his whole life barely clinging to existence, living only to avenge his mother.
Then he met Pei Xianyu.
They had both lost their mothers, but their outlooks were worlds apart.
She was kind and strong, his only salvation.
When he learned that Pei Xianyu no longer wanted him, he nearly went mad... He stopped at nothing to get her back, threatening, enticing, and seducing her. He didn’t care if she hated him. It was only in the moments when their bodies and souls intertwined that she seemed to belong to him.
On the day Pei Xianyu was to marry another man, he abducted the groom, put on the wedding robes himself, and snatched her away in front of everyone.
On their wedding night, his long, jade-like fingers tormented her sensitive skin as kisses rained down over her pale, delicate body.
“In this life, the next, and every life after, you can only ever belong to me. No one can take you away!”
She slapped him, but he licked her palm with even greater enthusiasm.
