She Crossed a Mad Court Official, and the Cool-Headed Heiress Fled While Pregnant

[Feel-good historical romance + both leads are each other’s only partners + coercive love + pregnancy before marriage + instinctive attraction + gloomy pervert + ex-husband’s desperate redemption]

When the marquis’s household falls overnight, Shen Li, the aloof and proud legitimate daughter famed throughout the capital, is forced to become Pei Yan’s caged songbird to save her little brother’s life. Pei Yan is the brutal chief grand secretary of the dynasty.

Rumor has it that Pei Yan is cold-blooded and ruthless, a mad King of Hell in human form. Yet he has an almost pathological, instinctive obsession with Shen Li alone.

If he can’t smell her cool fragrance, he grows as wild and irritable as a beast. If anyone so much as looks at her too long, he’ll gouge out their eyes.

Inside the cage of his manor, he presses closer and closer. “Shen Li, your body, your heart, even a single strand of hair you shed, can belong to me alone!”

Shen Li appears gentle and compliant, but in truth she calmly plots her escape. Amid their repeated brinkmanship and his coercive advances, she is shocked to discover that she is pregnant.

To keep her child from becoming the next plaything, Shen Li stages a perfect death in a raging fire and flees south to Jiangnan, pregnant and on the run.

The once all-powerful chief grand secretary goes completely mad! He digs through graves and searches the earth, clutching a charred corpse as he coughs blood and turns white-haired. He becomes a genuine gloomy lunatic.

Three years later, a net closes in across the watery towns of Jiangnan.

Pei Yan’s eyes are bloodshot. Like an evil spirit, he corners Shen Li, who is holding a little one, against the wall. His voice trembles with a perverse intensity. “Lili, you dared to steal my child. Have you thought about how you’ll spend the rest of your life making it up to me?”

Only then do everyone realize that the living King of Hell, who rules over all, is so humble before the woman he loves that he would gladly give up his life for her!