[Historical romance + possessive love + female lead is not a virgin, male lead is + uncle and sister-in-law]
[Composed, virtuous, and strong-willed heroine X deranged, domineering, and ill-tempered hero]
Cui Shangyuan was once the crown prince’s lawful wife.
A palace coup erupted. The new emperor killed his father and elder brother to seize the throne, and overnight she became a widow, struggling to survive in the inner palace with her young son.
She remained chaste to protect her child and kept her late husband in her heart, asking only for a quiet corner to live in. Instead, the emperor forcibly kept her by his side.
He disregarded their relationship as uncle and sister-in-law, ignored all propriety and moral codes, and took her by force at every turn.
She refused to yield, attempting to take her own life time and again to prove her resolve. To her, his favor was a shame that gnawed at her bones.
Until her dying day, she never understood what he saw in her, when all she felt for him was hatred.
No one knew that Li Zhaoyi had been obsessed with her for years.
He seized the realm and ruled the world, but all he had ever wanted was Cui Shangyuan.
The more she resisted, the more maddened and possessive he became.
Though he knew she hated him to the depths of her soul, he would lock her away in the imperial palace and keep her captive for life, until death finally parted them.
