Caged Sparrow: Imprisoned and Doted On by Two Twisted, Brooding Tycoons

[Brooding male ghost + forced love + stealing each other’s partners + male rivalry + chaste heroine and hero]

Jiang Wan escapes a warlord’s den of horrors and encounters Lu Heng, a “respectable” Chinese industrialist.

She is covered in blood, with warlord troops pursuing her.

With no other choice, she presses a knife to the neck of this seemingly harmless man.

“Drive. Take me away, or I’ll kill you!”

A hint of feverish desire flashes in the man’s eyes. “Get in.”

She thinks he is her salvation, never realizing he is the devil.

Lu Heng is a twisted man.

He has no use for violence. He controls people’s hearts and minds.

Time and again, she thinks she is about to escape, never realizing it is all part of the man’s conditioning.

He crushes every enemy who has ever bullied her, yet also shatters her dignity and carves the rules of submission into her very bones.

Until one drunken night, she walks into the wrong room and is suddenly pulled into a scorching embrace in the dark.

“Don’t be afraid. As long as you don’t tell him, he’ll never know.” Behind gold-rimmed glasses, his eyes are filled with tenderness.

Little by little, she loses herself in a tender yet deadly paradise...

Until the door is kicked open

“She’s my woman. Why are you kissing her?”

[Positive-content note: The male lead and second male lead are not leaders of a criminal compound. The story follows a high-IQ industrial development route.]