The Older Concubine Runs Off Pregnant, and the Regent Goes Mad Looking for Her

[Older woman-younger man romance + older bedchamber maid + seemingly gloomy and twisted, actually bursting with possessiveness + instinctive attraction + coercive pursuit + spirit-spring space + groveling pursuit + running away pregnant + happy ending]

Lin Qianqian, a 25-year-old office worker, dies from overwork and wakes up inside the melodramatic historical romance novel she had been following, The Phoenix Returns to Court. She has become a 22-year-old bedchamber maid in the Duke of Zhenguo's household, an older woman nobody likes.

Her master, Pei Yanci, is only nineteen. Outsiders say he is a refined and noble young lord, frail in health and gentle by nature, the most pitiful aristocrat in the whole capital.

Lin Qianqian thinks: Perfect. Once this kid marries his principal wife, she can fake her death using the Spirit Spring Space bound to her and escape. She'll buy a manor in Jiangnan, hire ten hunky men to wait on her, and spend the rest of her life in leisure.

But one late night

She is hiding in the space, munching on fried chicken and reading a storybook, when she looks up and meets a pair of blood-red, gloomy eyes.

Pei Yanci, who normally cries even when he steps on an ant, uses a bloodied longsword to part her sash. His voice is sickly and cloying:

"Sister, where are you going? Am I too young... and unable to satisfy you?"

This isn't some frail younger brother. He's a hidden, deranged god of slaughter!

Worse, he has an intensely twisted, "instinctive attraction" to her. His pupils dilate when he smells her, he trembles all over when he touches her skin, and he clings to her night after night like a bloodsucking snake.

On the night of Pei Yanci's wedding, Lin Qianqian uses the spirit spring to fake her death, then flees overnight with the baby in her belly.

Two years later.

Pei Yanci, now a white-haired regent with absolute power, searches the whole world.