[Historical romance | Heavenly Qian and Earthly Kun (ABO) setting | Hypocritical, lovesick chief minister | Forced devotion | Intense captivity and push-pull romance | Mutual salvation]
Everyone in the capital has been fooled by Gu Yuanting.
At twenty-three, he is the powerful chief minister of the Grand Secretariat, with exquisite features and a gentle temperament. Frail and coughing year-round, he looks as if the slightest breeze could knock him over.
Everyone praises him as upright, noble, and kindhearted, the unattainable dream of countless young noblewomen.
She is a destitute Kunze sent by her family to the chief minister’s residence to bring him good fortune through marriage. Everyone pities her for marrying into the residence, certain she will soon be widowed.
Gu Yuanting is a top-tier Tianqian, powerful enough to outclass everyone.
His unique pheromones are as sharp and domineering as snow-covered cedar. He keeps them perfectly suppressed in public, disguising himself as an ordinary man. But when they are alone late at night, his surging presence completely envelops her.
Lin Yuanqing is a Kunze, with the sweet, delicate scent of white pear blossoms.
Under the pretext of recuperating and caring for his wife, he builds her a gilded cage with his own hands. He controls what she eats and wears, dictates whom she can see, and screens everyone around her. Every day, he personally brews precious medicinal tonics for her. They seem to be carefully nurturing her health, but he secretly slips in medicinal catalysts, making her body increasingly sensitive until she depends on his scent alone.
In court, he is a mild-mannered and even-tempered chief minister. Before the public, he is the peerless minister revered by the people, a man of pure heart and few desires. In private, he is calculating, possessive, and utterly obsessed.
