The Obsessive Hostage Prince × The Psychologist’s Cherished Daughter: A Blood-Red Rose in the Palm of Power
[Modern profiler × Mad wolf cub of the Northern Desert | Palace intrigue × Mutual salvation | One-on-one, two strong leads]
Shen Jinghong transmigrates into the body of the Great Yong’s most notorious villainess. She hides profiling notes in her hairpin and pelts the imperial city with pearls, all just to survive in a palace that devours people. Then she kicks open a dilapidated woodshed in the imperial garden and finds Ye Xuan, a hostage prince covered in blood, using a stone to carve the names of every person he hates.
“Pick it up.” She tosses an osmanthus cake at his feet. “Stay alive, and you can glare right back at them.”
With his favorability at -200, she bets this lone wolf will bite the hand she holds out to him.
Ye Xuan remembers that crimson silk dress. When he is whipped, she swings her sleeve to shield him from the blows. On stormy nights, she sneaks into the woodshed to bring him a brazier, yet when he brings her wintersweet blossoms, she calls him “a hopeless idiot.” When he steps over piles of corpses to claim the throne of the Northern Desert, he keeps the crooked scarf she knitted tucked close to his heart, with the two characters “Jinghong” engraved on his sword hilt.
“You said you wanted the world?” She leans amid a sea of poppies and smiles. “What I want is you: the whole you, who clawed your way out of the mud.”
In the palace, where power plays intertwine, she exposes the hypocritical white lotus, foils her stepmother’s poisonous schemes, and uses her modern mindset to turn the tides between two nations. He transforms from a little beast who doesn’t dare speak up when beaten into an emperor who will lead an army to her defense, murmuring with obsessive devotion, “You are my light, and my blade.”
When the imperial edict ordering her marriage to another tears through the night, he leads a hundred thousand cavalry to smash through the palace walls, just to shout from the city tower, “Shen Jinghong, I’ve come to marry you!”
