One-on-one romance, two strong leads, marriage before love, intertwined angst and sweetness.
When false affection meets feigned sincerity, can scheming give rise to genuine love?
Chao Chaofeng was born into sin. His mother was forcibly taken by the emperor, his bloodline was a mystery, and revenge was all he had left. The first person he killed was his aunt, the Noble Consort, who had offered up her younger sister to curry favor. His hands were still stained with blood when he met the trembling eyes beneath the ancestral altar.
Lin Feitang knew too much. She should have been dead.
Instead, he married her, fastening the shackles of the title of Heir's Consort around her neck with his own hands. Their marriage began as a way to silence her and ended with her capturing his heart.
A girl raised in the countryside, she leapt into the role of the capital's most envied Heir's Principal Consort. Everyone said she'd married into a powerful family. Only she knew this marriage was a cage he'd carefully constructed.
But Chao Chaofeng hadn't counted on one thing:
The pawn he'd picked up on a whim to keep her quiet became the only light in his dark world.
She gave him warmth and someone to care for, making his frozen heart feel a burning spark for the first time.
And he had no idea that she'd already glimpsed the beginnings of the regicide plot and the scheme to bring down the court that he concealed beneath his gentleness...
