The Hound and the Caged Sparrow

[Forced love + yandere + imprisonment + reunion after a long separation + unhinged obsession + unconventional redemption + groveling for her back]

[Sweet-faced, scheming black-hearted villainess × gloomy, obsessive, unhinged love-struck man]

A towering camphor tree is best at sheltering birds who don't know how vast the world is.

Qi Yu'an was a bird who flew out of a muddy orphanage.

With an innocent face and a hard heart, she spent her life fighting her way upward, desperate to escape the muck of the lower classes and reach a height everyone else could only admire.

Living under someone else's roof, she envied Qi Heyao, who was born like a celestial crane perched beneath the moon.

To secure her place among the wealthy, she used Yu Zheng, a lowborn illegitimate son who was bullied and looked down on, as a stepping stone. After exploiting him in every way, she kicked him aside, pinned every accusation on him, and personally destroyed his future.

At last, she climbed her way to the wealthy young man Jing Cheng and was about to slip on an engagement ring and rise to the top of the social pyramid.

But Yu Zheng, the man she had once trampled underfoot, kidnapped her.

In a dim room, Yu Zheng slapped all the hard evidence of her dirty schemes onto the table and pinned her, once so high and mighty, into a corner.

“Want to marry into a wealthy family?” Madness and obsession roiled in his eyes. His long, cold fingers traced her nape inch by inch. “Sister, stay by my side. I'll clear every obstacle in your path. Otherwise, I don't mind dragging you down to hell with me.”

“From the moment we met at the orphanage, I knew, Sister, that we'd be together forever.”