Married into a Tycoon's Family on a Wedding Night, the Sinister Young Marshal Plots Against Me

[Tangled Identities + Chinese-Style Horror + Republican-Era Family Revenge + Powerful Hero Who Dotes on His Wife + Devoted Couple] Qin Ruan is sold by her adoptive father to the Fu family, Shanghai’s most powerful household, to bring good fortune through marriage. On her wedding night, the old master dies before her red bridal gown. The house is plunged into mourning. The second branch demands that she be buried with him, while the whole household watches coldly. Desperate, she crawls across the icy stone floor and clutches the hem of the black military uniform worn by the man standing deep in the mourning hall, a figure as fearsome as a demon from the underworld. Fu Shili, the Fu family’s true powerbroker, is a cold-blooded warlord who rose to power on a string of glorious military victories. He looks down at her and decides her fate with a single word: “Stay.” The woman who is his “stepmother” in name becomes a bird under his protection. Everyone says Young Master Fu keeps a temptress around to humiliate and torment her. But they do not know what happens in the shadowy room after midnight. The man’s rough, calloused fingers clamp around her slender waist, which is barely wide enough to span with one hand. Through the plain qipao, his touch sparks shivers. His voice is hoarse as he says, “Dear concubine, you’ve been running for so long. Aren’t you tired?” To the world, she is a timid, helpless bride brought in to bring good fortune, yielding at every turn. In secret, she uses fragments of the future she sees in her dreams to navigate the worlds of warlords, politicians, and tycoons, all to uncover the bloody case that led to the Qin family’s execution twenty years ago. Then her true identity is revealed, and old and new grudges come between them. The truth tears their intimacy apart. She points a gun at him, a vivid flush rising at the corners of her eyes. But instead of retreating, he takes control, gripping her trembling wrist and pressing the muzzle against his own heart. “I’ll pay for you with this war-torn land. I’m done being part of the Fu family.”