My Childhood Friend Is Marrying Someone Else, So the Mad Chief Minister Steals the Bride

[Childhood Sweethearts + Unhinged Powerful Official + Coercive Possessiveness + Yandere]

When she was eight, Wan Ning slipped the last piece of sweet rice cake into the hands of Shen Yanqing, a down-and-out young man, and sweetly called him “Big Brother.”

At fourteen, he passed the provincial exam as its top candidate and was taken away by a powerful family in the capital.

Before leaving, he gripped her hand so tightly his eyes reddened as he promised, “Ningning, wait for me. I’ll come back and marry you.”

Wan Ning waited until she was eighteen, only to hear rumors that he was engaged to a noble young lady.

With her heart broken, she nodded and accepted the proposal of a gentle local scholar.

The scholar treated her wonderfully, and Wan Ning thought she would spend the rest of her life in peace and comfort.

But on the eve of the wedding, red candles flickered as the night wind rustled through the wedding characters plastered all over the courtyard.

Wan Ning awoke groggily in her boudoir, only to find herself caught in a pair of eyes filled with obsessive madness.

Shen Yanqing, now the Grand Secretary, slowly stroked her wedding dress with bloodstained knuckles, his voice sinister and icy:

“Ah Ning, which dead man are you planning to marry in that red dress?”