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★ Intense tragic romance + historical power struggles; the leads are evenly matched
★ A deeply twisted and devoted commander X a minister’s daughter struggling to survive against all odds
★ Love is a shackle, but also the only way to survive
The day my family was confiscated, he personally crushed the pride of the Grand Secretary’s daughter that I was.
“Become a servant or a concubine. Choose one.”
I became the despised concubine of Xiao Jue, Commander of the Embroidered Uniform Guard, and a tool for him to take revenge on my father.
He hated me to the bone and trampled on my dignity, yet held my hand through the night when I was gravely ill.
He made me compose flattering memorials in his place, never knowing I’d hidden my father’s unfinished remonstrance between the lines.
He said my younger brother’s life was in my hands, yet amid his overwhelming power, I was the only one he shielded.
Later, the Yan faction turned on us, and the imperial prison became a battlefield soaked in blood.
When he was gravely wounded and near death, he smiled and asked me, “Shen Zhiwei, if there’s another life…”
I didn’t let him finish.
In this world that devours people, there is no next life.
There is only you and me, imprisoning each other, consuming each other,
until death.
Beef Brisket: If this doesn’t hurt to read, I lose.
I pity this author 🙂