Frost and Snow Lock Qingwu in Bianjing

Traditional historical romance + possessive love Blood from the palace banquet stains the vermilion walls. In a single night, the Chancellor's estate is wiped out, and the noblewoman Shen Qingwu becomes a prisoner. After enduring one brush with death after another, she is rescued and clings to a tenuous hold on life. That same night, Prince Jin, Zhao Zhen, is caught in the brutal struggle for the throne. His mentor dies, his mother passes away, and although he survives, the new emperor banishes him from the capital under the pretext of sending him to a distant post. Three years later, he returns, carrying the harsh winds of the borderlands and secrets, stirring up a storm in Bianjing. When they meet again, Shen Qingwu clutches his robe, her voice trembling as she asks in the most humble of tones, “Does Your Highness need a maid in your household?” “Or perhaps a concubine, a bedchamber attendant... anything will do.” He takes out his hatred on her, tormenting and humiliating her at every turn. She bears it in silence, never expecting that she would be the first to lose her heart. At every turn, the game is deadly. Every word is a test. As hatred surges, affection quietly takes root. Two wretched souls, each harboring their own schemes, are tangled together in the web of fate. Neither will escape unscathed. P.S. The heroine is eight years younger than the hero. The heroine is physically frail and spends the early part of the story weighed down by the sins of her family.