The Wife I Lured In by Playing the Innocent, Don’t Think You Can Run

[Both leads are virgins + sweet romance + deranged characters + descent into darkness + confinement + both are powerful, with hidden identities revealed + both are hopeless romantics]

[A sweet beauty with a dark side and eight hundred tricks up her sleeve vs. a seemingly pure-hearted, seductive, lovesick prince with a twisted streak]

Jiang Shuyu, the seventh head of the Jiang family, is greedy for money and lustful by nature.

To avoid disaster and set her plans in motion, she feigns illness and heads south to Gongzhou to recuperate. In Huaizhou, she takes one look at Song Huaijing, a poor scholar living at a temple, and sets her sights on him.

Song Huaijing is breathtakingly handsome, with a gentle and refined nature.

Jiang Shuyu uses every trick in the book to win his heart and claim his body, finally devouring him whole.

A little fun is all well and good, but what matters more than a man? Money!

The time is ripe, and the capital is ready for her to close the net.

Jiang Shuyu immediately pulls away, dumps the poor scholar, and returns to the capital to reclaim her family fortune.

But why is Song Huaijing, who claimed he was returning home to pay his respects to his ancestors, now in the capital wearing a prince's robe?

So the tomb he was visiting was the imperial mausoleum?

Jiang Shuyu lets go of her fiance's hand and gives an awkward, ingratiating smile.

Just hear her out!

Knowing she's in the wrong, Jiang Shuyu chooses to flee under cover of night, and the haughty master of the Eastern Palace completely loses himself to darkness.

In the Eastern Palace's secret chamber, candlelight flickers as a golden cage keeps its beloved little bird captive.

The man strokes the corner of her eyes, red and wet with tears, and says in a low, husky voice, full of possessiveness, “A-Yu, why are you crying? Isn't this what you like best?”

[They both love each other to bits, a sweet mutual-pampering romance, and plenty of steamy action]