I Found a Fake Husband, and My Mad, Jealous Chancellor Wants to Kill Me

[Historical Romance, Female-Oriented | Unhinged Male Lead | Coercive Pursuit | Mutual Redemption | Strong Female Lead | Clear-Headed and Rational]

When he was five, a brazier devoured half of Qi Min’s face, and with it, his right to be loved.

He lived in a personal hell, surviving on hatred, until he met a woman from a thousand years in the future by a freezing pond: Yu Qianqian.

She saved him, but never pitied him.

She called him handsome, but refused to let him imprison her.

Thinking he had finally caught hold of the light, he used the clumsiest, most obsessive means to keep her by his side.

“Qianqian, you can only look at me.”

But seven attempts to escape taught him that love was no cage.

After five years apart, he came to see her with a completely new face, hoping they could start over with him looking perfect.

Yet a single touch was all it took for her to recognize the battered soul hidden beneath that flawless exterior.

She borrowed a “husband” to make him give up.

Jealousy consumed him, but even with her blade at his throat, he smiled and said he was willing to die.

“Qianqian, kill me, and you’ll be completely free.”

This was a tragedy written in the stars, and a redemption that came too late.

He was born to be a solitary minister. All he ever wanted was to hear her say, “I love you.”

She was a clear-eyed passerby, yet in the end she stayed for him in this war-torn world.

A sea of hatred and a sky of love, a lifetime amid the ashes. They were each other’s undoing, and each other’s only way home.

When the dust settled and the young emperor ascended the throne, ushering in an age of peace and prosperity, she finally took his hand and gave him the words that had been half a lifetime in coming:

“Qi Min, let’s go home.”