[Historical Romance] [Mutual First Love] [Political Schemes] [Forced Possession] [Mutual Devotion] [Winning Back His Wife]
Ruan Xingyao, the least favored princess sent away for a political marriage, awakened memories of her past life.
She knew she was about to be given as a gift to Pei Weilan, the regent rumored to be insane and mercilessly murderous.
To stay alive, she drank a fake-death potion and pretended to be a useless deaf and blind woman, hoping to be thrown into the cold palace and left to live or die on her own.
On their wedding night, red silk filled the room.
The man rumored to be cold-blooded and brutal lifted her bridal veil. His callused fingertips brushed over the corners of her trembling eyes.
"You're blind? So be it. You won't see me kill anyone, and then you won't be afraid."
Ruan Xingyao held her breath in terror, thinking she'd escaped disaster.
What she didn't know was that from that day onward, the aloof regent dropped his disguise.
Night after night, he held her captive in bed, speaking in the gentlest voice and saying the most knee-weakening things.
"Yaoyao, kiss me, and I'll spare the lives of everyone in this palace tonight."
Then her childhood friend, the young general He Yubai, returned from suppressing a rebellion, imperial decree in hand, to take her away.
On the palace wall, Pei Weilan gripped the young general by the throat with one hand and covered Ruan Xingyao's eyes with the other. His voice was tender, yet dripping with blood. "Be good. Close your eyes. Don't watch him die."
