The Top Courtesan Wants to Escape, and Sickly Young Master Feng Has Gone Completely Mad

The day she was forced into prostitution, Ling Xiao thought she had rotted away in the mud. That was until Feng Xun, a reckless madman, took an interest in her and bought her at a high price. She became a tool for him to use against his father. He mocked her for being uneducated, yet patiently guided her hand as he taught her to write her own name. He hit her and called her ugly, but whenever someone else bullied her, he would grab them with bloodshot eyes and beat them half to death. “Who gave you the right to touch what belongs to me?” For the first time in her life, someone stood in front of her. Her love for him wasn’t a sudden plunge into infatuation. It was a desperate pursuit of that faint, uncertain, yet undeniably real glimmer of light. She clung like duckweed to him, her guardian deity, until news came of his engagement. Someone told her, “A filthy woman like you will only ruin him.” So, on the night Feng Xun got engaged to a socialite, Ling Xiao disappeared. She took no clothes and not a single cent. Everyone thought Young Master Feng had merely lost a pet. Only after he tore up half the city did they realize that someone had gouged out his heart. Six months later, she had put her past behind her and was about to become someone’s wife. On her wedding day, the man burst in, bristling with fury. He grabbed her by the waist and kissed her in front of everyone, his voice hoarse and broken: “I’ve been looking for you for 192 days, 20 hours, and 12 minutes. Come back with me.” She pushed him away, trembling. The next day, her impotent husband was jailed for “sexual assault in the workplace.” Late that night, Feng Xun trapped her in a corner, his burning kisses falling on her neck as he murmured with near-obsessive intensity: “Wife, you’ve had your fun. It’s time to come home.” [Reader’s Guide] The male lead is a deranged, possessive maniac. The early story is emotionally and physically harrowing, followed by a long, painful pursuit to win his wife back. The female lead is a resilient, innocent-looking girl who grows through her suffering. They save each other.