Warmth Beneath the Red Wedding Curtains

[Pure historical romance + both leads are each other’s first and only + coercive possession + elder brother steals younger brother’s wife + light confinement]

[Cool and self-possessed heir apparent + impoverished orphan girl]

The night Shen Qingci was publicly jilted, Xiao Yu, the Marquis’s heir, whose name was renowned throughout the capital, told her, “Be mine, and I’ll repay you a hundredfold for every wrong you’ve suffered.”

She became his secret, caged lover. People mocked her for currying favor and behaving immorally.

He was obsessed with her and kept her confined. Even a single smile she gave a stray cat could send him into a furious rage.

But who would have thought that the Marquis’s heir, so cool and composed in public, would hold her in his arms at night and say, “Call me husband.”

Then one day, a great fire burned away every trace of her.

Xiao Yu’s hair turned white overnight, and he went on a murderous rampage.

Only then did he understand: it wasn’t that she couldn’t live without him. It was that he couldn’t live without her.

Later, the heir, who had never believed in gods or Buddhas, knelt for a long time before the Buddha, begging for one more chance to see her.

Much later, amid the misty rain of Jiangnan, he wore a bamboo hat and merely passed her by. He was so nervous he held on to the hat, afraid of frightening her.

But how could two people who had once loved each other fail to recognize one another?

She didn’t stop.

Yet his eyes filled with joy. “I only wish you well. It’s all right if you don’t want me.”

He stood where he was, watching her walk away, smiling until he began to cry.

This newly risen noble, the Marquis’s heir Xiao Yu, whom everyone praised as the perfect man, turned white-haired overnight for one woman.

Note: Contains coercive possession and a sense of forbidden love.

Cool and composed on the surface, but a dark, unhinged yandere underneath. The heroine seems weak on the outside, but is clear-headed and calculating.