After My Entire Family Was Executed, the Powerful Minister Became My Lover

[Broken Black Lotus x Unhinged Powerful Official | The Pursuit After the Breakup] [First Sex, Then Love + Two Strong Leads + Intense Push and Pull + Both Chaste + Revenge and Breaking the Deadlock + Mutual Devotion]

The night the entire Gu family was sentenced to execution, Gu Mingzhao was left with nowhere to turn. She forced a kiss on Prince Jing, Xie Chenyuan, whose power eclipsed even the court. She traded her body for her life, and he was tempted by her beauty.

He gave her a new identity and taught her how to kill and scheme, transforming the once pampered young lady, step by step, into a ruthless black lotus. Later, he was also the one who personally married her off into the enemy Shen family. Gu Mingzhao thought this was simply the final move in their game of chess. But after the wedding, Xie Chenyuan was the first to lose his mind. By day, she was the dignified new bride of the Shen family. By night, the man who had sent her off to be married cornered her again and again in secluded places, asking, "Did he touch you?" Only then did Gu Mingzhao realize: Xie Chenyuan could send away his own chess piece, but he couldn't bear to lose her. But she no longer cared.

A body was just a body, pleasure was just pleasure. She liked Xie Chenyuan touching her, but she would never love him again. Because he had taught her all of it.

She used his power to take revenge, while he used her to uncover the old case surrounding the struggle for the throne. From the very beginning, they had each taken what they needed, and neither had any right to speak of true feelings.

When the game was over, she turned to leave. The man who had always stood above everyone else and thought nothing of even imperial power lost control completely for the first time. Xie Chenyuan held her captive in his arms, eyes red, and asked, "You used me, and now you want to leave?" Gu Mingzhao smiled. "Your Highness, we agreed from the start that feelings were off the table." Xie Chenyuan had spent his whole life calculating people's hearts, but he had overlooked one thing: he had taught her to be heartless. In the end, he was the one who couldn't bear to lose her, and he became his own...