[Republican-Era Setting + Young Marshal + Romance and Marriage + Possessive Love + Tension]
On a stormy night, Shen Yan, a celebrated socialite of Beiping, was publicly jilted by her fiancé. The Shen family empire collapsed, and her parents were thrown into prison.
At her lowest point, a black car pulled up in front of her. Inside sat Song Ximo, the rising warlord she'd once scorned and whose marriage contract she'd torn up.
He gripped her chin, his gaze icy. “Now even the dogs don't want you?”
Once, she'd dismissed him as a playboy and kept him at arm's length. Now he was all-powerful, and she was a fallen phoenix in his eyes.
“Marry me, or wait to die?” he asked with an amused smile.
To save her parents, Shen Yan became the canary he kept in a gilded cage.
He pressed her at every turn; she met force with softness. He drew the boundaries of her cage; she grew bold under his indulgence.
But when she had finally grown strong enough to spread her wings and decided to escape, he realized he was already hopelessly in love with her, willing to bow down and submit.
“Shen Yan, this cage has ended up trapping me instead.”
He tightened his hold around her waist and pressed his gun to the head of the betrayer. “You want to touch her? Did you ask me?”
