Leaving the Capital: The Ruthless Power Broker Grabs Me by the Waist and Coaxes Me

[Mutual Firsts + Male Lead’s Identity Revealed + Breaking Up the Intended Couple + Unhinged, Obsessive Love + Intense Push and Pull]

Jiang Lingzhi, daughter of the Chancellor, is cool, composed, and clear-eyed.

She intends to obey her elders and marry her gentle, refined cousin, living a peaceful life.

Then she unexpectedly saves “Ajiu,” a down-on-his-luck medicine peddler tormented by a debilitating cold poison.

Ajiu is breathtakingly handsome, and his peach-blossom eyes are always red as he looks at her. “Zhizhi, I have no one but you. Don’t leave me.”

Her heart softens, and she hides him in a small courtyard, caring for him with devotion.

Until the day the throne changes hands and the streets run red with blood.

Jiang Lingzhi sees with her own eyes the mad Regent Xie Wuwang, who holds power over the court and kills without blinking, stepping over a sea of blood as he lazily wipes his sword clean.

He turns and meets her gaze.

The living devil, feared by all, looks flustered. In front of the entire court, he kneels humbly at her feet and clutches her skirt with bloodied hands. “Zhizhi, don’t be afraid. Ajiu was just cleaning up the filth for you...”

Jiang Lingzhi’s scalp prickles. What kind of weak medicine peddler is this? He’s a rabid dog who devours people without leaving a bone!

She coldly breaks off her engagement, raises the courtyard walls, and swears never to see the madman again for as long as she lives.

But later, the Regent abandons every shred of dignity.

He climbs through her window every night, and even after she slaps him, he grins like he’s basking in the spring breeze. On the eve of their wedding, he pins her to the bed, kisses away the tears at the corner of her eyes, and murmurs in a hoarse, unhinged voice, “Zhizhi, the realm is yours, and you are mine. Whoever dares marry you, I’ll kill!”