The Mad Powerbroker Fell for Me First, Then Drew Me Deeper Into His Trap

[Scheming Siren] [Dark, Obsessive Love] [Intense Romantic Tension] [Possessive Love] [Ten-Year Age Gap] [Dramatic Inner Monologue]

Lin Feiwan, a seasoned modern HR professional and psychology expert, transmigrates into the eldest sister-in-law of the most powerful family in the Great Ye Dynasty, a widow branded a jinx. From the start, her husband dies on their wedding night, and the clan patriarch tries to force her to be buried alive with him! To stay alive, she pretends to be mad and passes herself off as a spirit-medium, scraping by in the inner quarters.

Who would have thought she'd catch the eye of her sinister, ruthless, powerful younger brother-in-law, the Regent Huo Yuan, who is ten years her senior?

Huo Yuan is dark, obsessive, and cruel. He's the kind of madman even the emperor fears.

At first, he grips her chin and sneers, "Stop pretending to be a spirit-medium in front of me. Cause trouble again, and I'll skin you alive."

Lin Feiwan trembles on the outside, her eyes red-rimmed. "Please spare me, Uncle. I'll do whatever you say..."

But inside, she grumbles furiously: [Old geezer, what's with the big bad wolf act? You're a textbook case of childhood trauma and emotional neglect. Just watch me turn you into a lovesick fool!]

With her modern, siren-level talent for playing on people's emotions, Lin Feiwan acts like a fragile, long-suffering flower who is weak in front of everyone. Behind the scenes, she keeps the aloof imperial physician and the arrogant young emperor firmly in hand as "affection-point NPCs."

Until one day, Huo Yuan catches her smiling tenderly at another man, and the thread of reason snaps completely.

His eyes bloodshot, he pins her against the offering table in the ancestral shrine. His voice is both desperate and unhinged: "Wanwan, look at me... If you look at anyone else again, I'll kill him."