Scheming Childhood Friend: You Want Me to Call You Sister-in-Law?

The brilliant Third Prince, Zhao Heng, is in fact a survivor who faked his death at the age of eight and went into hiding. After nine years lying low and concealing his sharp edge, he has returned to court with his sights set on the Eastern Palace. But during the nine years they spent together in Zhuxi Town, his master’s daughter, Qi Yunshu, became the only warmth in his dark life, and the one attachment he could never let go. Now that he has returned to the heart of the power struggle, she has been betrothed to his elder brother and is about to become his proper sister-in-law! “Your Highness, by the rules, you should call me Sister-in-law!” Qi Yunshu’s tearful accusation was filled with bone-deep distance and despair. The impact of that word, “Sister-in-law,” made his heart clench so tightly he could barely breathe, setting his suppressed madness and fury ablaze! He snapped the jade hairpin her rival had given her, then seized her lips with a fury that threatened to destroy everything. He ignored her struggles and tears, and the metallic sweetness spreading between their lips, declaring his possession in the most overbearing way. “Qi Yunshu, you’re mine. You and Zhao Jie can forget about it!” He is a phoenix reborn from the ashes, and a player moving the pieces on the board of the world. Imperial power, morality, betrothal... Every shackle standing between him and her will be crushed by his own hands! He wants not only the supreme position in the Eastern Palace, but also the woman who should, by rights, never have been his!