The Sweet Concubine Ran Off Pregnant, Driving the Cold-Faced Grand Secretary Mad

[Coercive possession + faking her death and escaping + desperate pursuit]

On the day the entire Shangshu household was sentenced to execution, the pampered legitimate daughter, brought low and desperate to overturn the verdict, willingly sold herself into the residence of the emperor’s chief minister.

Xie Yunwan thought this would be nothing more than a dangerous period of lying low.

Without a System or a pocket dimension, she relied on her remarkable medicinal cooking and Jiangnan ballads. Not only did she become the frail young master’s lifeline, she also unexpectedly caught the attention of Gu Hanyuan, the suspicious, merciless “living King of Hell.”

By day, she was a clever, patient servant, battling cruel servants and rooting out spies as she carefully gathered ironclad evidence to clear her family’s name.

By night, the powerful man pushed open her door and pinched her chin between his long fingers, his eyes roiling with dark desire. “Since you’re so good at serving people, you can serve me tonight.”

She played along and humored him at every turn, waiting only for her revenge to be complete so she could walk away.

But when she left a charred corpse behind in a great fire and faked her death, the man who had always been so cold-blooded went completely mad.

A hundred thousand imperial guards tore through half the capital. Later, he cornered her, pregnant, against a wall. His eyes bloodshot, his voice trembling with fury, he snarled, “You flirt with me and then think you can run? Wanwan, even if you go to hell, you’re taking me with you!”