Zexian: The Mad Prince’s Prisoner

Reborn, Fan Xian thought he could avoid the bloodshed and turmoil of his previous life. But the moment he stepped into the capital, he once again fell into Li Chengze’s unfathomable gaze.

In his previous life, he was the Commissioner of the Overwatch Council, a man with immense power and the sharpest blade in the court of Qing. Yet he never saw through the obsession and madness churning in the eyes of the Second Prince, Li Chengze. He thought they were kindred spirits, evenly matched, and allies who kept each other in check. Only at the end did he understand what kind of possessiveness lay beneath that seemingly gentle smile. As Fan Xian lay in a pool of blood, Li Chengze held his cold body and whispered in his ear, “If there is another life, I will never let you leave again.” Those words became the clearest nightmare of his reborn life.

In this life, he returned with the memories of his past, carefully plotting each step, wanting only to stay away from that mad prince and live in peace. But Li Chengze was like an invisible net: wherever Fan Xian fled, he could ensnare him with uncanny precision. At court, Fan Xian was Li Chengze’s sharpest sword. In the martial world, he was his strongest shield. Even in the palace chambers at night, Fan Xian could only gasp for breath under his control.

“Fan Xian, you can’t escape.” Li Chengze’s fingertips traced his jaw, his eyes alight with a madness that would not be denied. “In this life, you can only be my prisoner, held in the palm of my hand, and the blood of my heart.”

As the whirlpool of political schemes swept them up once more, and the grudges of their past life became entangled with their obsession in this one, Fan Xian finally understood that some fates had been sealed from the very beginning. He was the prey Li Chengze would spend his whole life trying to imprison, and Li Chengze was also