My Possessive Childhood Friend: The Lord Always Wants to Keep Me Locked Away

Childhood friends + doting, mature top + age gap + sweet romance + solving crimes + happy ending

As a child, Tang Ziwan picked up a wild man and made him his bodyguard. When the wild man grew up, he decided he wanted to be Tang Ziwan’s husband.

The day his father sent him away as a bargaining chip, Ling Wei fled with Tang Ziwan. From then on, he suffered from separation anxiety. He could only keep living by pulling Tang Ziwan tightly into his arms.

Ling Wei said to Tang Ziwan, “In this sullied world, only you are pure.”

So, to protect Tang Ziwan, he entered the political arena and climbed the ranks, determined to keep the person he loved beneath his wing when the storm broke.

But when Tang Ziwan sought to find his own purpose and donned the robes of a coroner, Ling Wei got angry with him for the first time.

“Can’t you just behave and stay with me?”

So Lord Ling shut Tang Ziwan away in a high pavilion, kissed the tears from the corners of his eyes, and murmured hoarsely, “Why can’t you look at me and me alone?”

Everyone said that Lord Ling, Vice Minister of the Court of Judicial Review, kept a lawless little songbird. It wasn’t until Tang Ziwan used a rotting corpse to expose an old case that rocked the court that the officials learned the truth: Lord Ling’s endlessly exasperating childhood friend was the beloved disciple of a retired imperial tutor.

Ling Wei fought through his discomfort and, before the eyes of the entire court, personally straightened the collar of Tang Ziwan’s official robe. He whispered, “Now everyone in the realm knows you’re mine.”