The Grand Eunuch’s Beloved Little Wife

[Unhinged + Coercive Possession + Two Male Leads + Substitute Bride + Groveling to Win Her Back] When my entire family was sentenced to death, Shen Jue, the powerful Ninth Duke, rescued me. He was gloomy and possessive, keeping me imprisoned in his manor. He personally fed me the medicine that kept me alive, then personally clipped my wings. “Wanwan, I’m the only one in this world who can keep you alive,” he said. I had resigned myself to living this way, until he used an imperial edict to “bestow” me upon a borderland general whose previous wives had all died, as a substitute for the real daughter of the prime minister’s household. He said it was a safer cage than the one by his side. I was sent off in a bridal sedan, thinking I was falling from one abyss into another. But the stern, unyielding general gave me respect and freedom I had never known. He taught me to ride and took me to see the solitary smoke rising over the desert. Just as I began to believe I had escaped, Shen Jue came crawling after me like a bone-deep parasite, crossing a thousand miles, madness in his eyes as he burned to destroy everything. “Qingqing, who gave you permission… to smile at him?”