The Captive Legitimate Daughter: The Mad King and His Powerful Minister Won't Let Her Go

Shen Qingning is the capital’s most distinguished young lady, poised, virtuous, gentle, and proper. She is the childhood sweetheart and betrothed of Lin Xiuwen, the Grand Tutor’s legitimate son.

No one knows that she keeps someone in her heart, someone she fears most and longs to escape more than anyone in the world: her fiancé’s adopted younger brother, Xiao Ran, a ruthless and sinister man with power over the entire court.

On the eve of her wedding, Xiao Ran returns in triumph and is appointed Prince Regent. At the palace banquet, before everyone’s eyes, he grips her wrist and speaks with a hoarse, amused voice:

“Elder Sister, it’s been a long time.”

The whole hall is stunned, but no one dares say a word.

Later, he confines her within a tiny space. His burning breath brushes her ear as he speaks with gentle cruelty:

“Ning’er, every time you call his name, I’ll take something from him. Would you like him to lose an arm first... or a leg?”

Only when Shen Qingning sees the secret chamber in his study, its walls covered in portraits of her, does she discover that the oldest one was painted ten years ago...