Regent, Stop Looking. Your Concubine Has Faked Her Death and Fled with the Second Male Lead

[One woman, two men + possessive pursuit + regret and desperate pursuit + not a wish-fulfillment story + rivalry between male leads] Xiahou Shu first met Shen Qingmo at the Lantern Festival. She chased him halfway down a long street, not to curry favor, but to return the sachet he'd accidentally lost. Her hair was disheveled, and a natural dewy sheen softened the corners of her eyes. She looked pure and delicate. That single glance stirred an intense possessiveness in his heart, though he had seen beauties of every kind. He kept her by his side. The more he saw her remain aloof and restrained, refusing to bow her head or yield, the more he wanted to break her pride with his own hands. The less she begged him through tears, the more he wanted her on her knees, pleading. But in Wen Yan's eyes, it all looked different. He too had once fallen into bottomless darkness and known the misery of being trapped in a quagmire. Whenever he saw her endure endless torment, battered and humiliated, yet bite down hard and refuse to shed a single tear, his heart ached for her. He never disturbed her. Instead, he would quietly climb over the wall in the middle of the night and leave medicine and hot food on her windowsill, never showing his face. Until one night, chilled to the bone, she burned with a high fever and, delirious, grabbed his sleeve and called out another man's name. He froze in place, and after that night, he never climbed over that wall again. Three years later, a raging fire swept through Qingliang Residence. Everyone believed she was dead. Only Xiahou Shu dug her charred remains from the ashes with his own hands, and his hair turned white overnight. In a small town somewhere in Jiangnan, a masked female doctor with exceptional medical skills quietly appeared. Wherever she went, a handsome man with a tall, straight figure followed close behind. Day after day, he clung to her, asking, “When will I get an official place by your side? If you can't give me that, I'll settle for being your concubine.”