A Heart Bound in Ice

Name: A Heart Bound in Ice
Author: A Melon Downstairs

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by A Melon Downstairs (楼下一瓜)

Status: Ongoing
Length: 237k Words
Genre: Ancient Romance
Subgenre: Ancient-Style Life
Updated: 2d ago
Source: Fanqie

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Synopsis

[Pampered noblewoman × Embroidered Uniform Guard | marriage before love | one-on-one, both pure]

Everyone knows that Su Nuowan, the Grand Tutor's legitimate daughter, is delicate and stunning, refined in temperament and fond of elegance. She fears violence, prisons, and bloody power struggles most of all.

A marriage contract made in their youth bound her firmly to the most terrifying man in the capital.

She hated his aura of violence, his command of the imperial prison, and the power he held over life and death. She hated that he was the fiendish scourge whose very name made people tremble.

To secure a life of peace and leisure, she plotted at every turn, determined only to end their childhood engagement and escape the cold world of blades and bloodshed.

But the emperor had spoken, and no one could defy an imperial decree.

With one decree of betrothal, she was forced to don the phoenix crown and marry into the all-powerful Lu family, becoming Lu Lin's lawful wife.

In public, they were the model couple of the capital, envied by all and courteous to each other.

In private, they engaged in a silent contest of probing and retreating, with suspicion lurking beneath the surface.

He was the Embroidered Uniform Guard commander who controlled the capital's network of informants and held the lives, fortunes, and reputations of every official in his hands.

Cold, stern, and taciturn, he was ruthless and decisive. No one at court dared challenge his authority.

But when it came to her, a thousand years of ice melted away.

The greed he'd restrained for years and the desire he'd suppressed to the bone burst forth in their everyday life together, growing wildly and obsessively.

The whole city knew him as cold-blooded and heartless. Only with her was he burning with obsession, sinking deeper with every step.

“Su Nuowan, from the moment our marriage contract was signed, you could only ever belong to me.”

He made imperial power her cage and his devotion her chains, forcing her to spend the rest of her life with him.

Her heart had always belonged to elegance, untouched by the world's violence, and she wanted only to escape his hellish realm.

But in the end…

Her heart, so resistant and wary, always trying to evade him, fell completely for the singular, obsessive yet tender way he cherished her.

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