[Scheming, vengeful, secretly ruthless heroine × Self-disciplined, reserved Imperial Tutor]
[Forbidden step-sibling romance + The tutor breaks his vows + Teasing and tension + Repressed obsession + Secret identity + The aloof beauty falls from his pedestal]
Everyone knew that Tutor Shen was disciplined and proper, with a heart like stone. But only he knew he had been tormented by the same erotic dream night after night for half a year.
Months ago, after being drugged, Lu Ci grabbed a stranger to help her dispel the effects, tossed down some coins, and ran off without looking back.
On the day she married into the Shen family as his stepsister, she recognized him at a glance beneath his mask: he was the man from that night!
To uncover the truth behind her mother’s brutal death, she deliberately flirted with him and ingratiated herself, doing her best to hide her identity as she seduced him, afraid he would remember the humiliation of that night and kill her out of spite.
At first, he was cold and distant. “You’re the Shen family’s stepdaughter. If we marry you off carelessly, it’ll bring shame on the Shen family.”
Later, before the entire Shen clan, he turned down another man’s proposal. “Lu Ci is my father’s stepdaughter. I alone will decide whom she marries.”
Later still, he said, “A Ci, am I some kind of savage beast? Why do you keep avoiding me?”
In the end, he pinned her against a corner. “A Ci, I’m in agony. Please, have some pity on me.”
(The heroine is his stepsister.)
It's pretty and very sexy. I just like the pull of this underground romance.