The Buddha in the Snow

[Both are chaste + 1v1 + untouchable beauty brought down from her pedestal + coercive romance + she runs away while pregnant + groveling to win her back + court intrigue]

On a snowy night, she stopped the carriage of the Grand Chancellor.

“Please… help me.”

Shen Zhaoning was reborn with one purpose: to escape the tragic fate of being given to a eunuch as his sexual companion, as she had been in her previous life. Summoning the last of her strength, she clung to a pair of immaculate brocade boots.

The man inside was Gu Xiuyun, the cold-faced Grand Chancellor who held power over the entire court. He was also the uncle of her fiancé.

The man’s icy fingers lifted her chin. Looking at the alluring flush at the corners of her eyes, he said, “A daughter of the Shen family? Do you know that tempting me will send you straight to hell?”

She raised her face, her eyes filled with desperate resolve. “As long as I can live, I’ll accept even hell!”

That night, desire tainted the Buddhist hall, and the untouchable beauty shattered into pieces.

Afterward, she fled to Jiangnan with the “abomination” in her belly, believing they would never meet again.

But the capital was turned upside down in the search for her. The man, cool and serene as a Buddha, wrapped his prayer beads around her wrist, his gaze so sinister it made her knees weaken.

“You used me and thought you could run? You’re carrying my child. If you dare marry someone else…”

“I’ll have every official at court buried with you.”