Once a Prisoner at My Feet, Now His Hand Is Around My Throat

[Timid, pampered crybaby X sinister, obsessive, hypocritical mad minister] Transmigrate into a book / intense push and pull / forced love / class reversal / obsessive confinement Jiang Sui transmigrates into an ancient romance novel as a vicious heiress destined for a miserable end. To stay alive, she overcomes her timidity and nervously rescues Pei Jingxuan, a destitute slave who has suffered endless humiliation at the Jiang family’s hands. She treats his wounds and teaches him to read. She thinks she is the only salvation in his abyss, never realizing she is simply raising a dormant, bloodthirsty mad wolf. Three years later, the Jiang clan is brought crashing down by a carefully plotted scheme. The once-privileged legitimate daughter becomes a prisoner, locked in an iron cage at a black-market auction for all to see. Just as Jiang Sui is reduced to tears by the vile insults, the newly appointed chief minister, whose power reaches across the court, throws down a fortune and ends the bidding. Thinking her savior has arrived, she clutches the bars and tearfully begs the young man from years ago to take her away. But Pei Jingxuan looks down at her from above. There is no carriage, no tenderness. In full view of everyone, he slips a coarse hemp rope around her slender neck and leads the haughty young lady barefoot back to the chief minister’s residence like a dog. In the chamber draped in red silk, shackles lock around her delicate ankles. Pei Jingxuan forces her into the most luxurious palace dress she once owned, then coolly watches her huddle in the corner of the bed, crying and begging for mercy like a frightened fawn. At last, he drops the act. His fingers clamp down hard on her chin as he bends to lick away the tears falling from the corners of her eyes, his expression sick with obsession. “Miss.” Pei Jingxuan’s eyes are bloodshot. Gripping the back of her neck, he speaks each word like a blade to the heart. “You didn’t really think I came to repay you, did you?”