[Historical romance + infinite-loop fake deaths + domineering possessiveness + two formidable minds in a battle of wits + intense push and pull + male lead retains his memories and loses his mind]
On her wedding night, her country fell and her family was destroyed.
Jiang Fuguang, the proudest noblewoman in the imperial capital, became a gilded caged bird, imprisoned deep in the palace by the new emperor, Huo Jiuyuan.
Heavy black-iron chains clasped her slender ankles. The man who had ascended the throne over the corpses of her father and brothers raised her chin with a bloodied sword. “Run? This whole realm belongs to me. You won't get far, even with wings.”
She swallowed her humiliation and blood, meekly resting against his knees. But at the height of their night together, she drove a poisoned hairpin into his heart, then took her own life with his sword.
When she opened her eyes again, time had returned to their wedding night.
Escape, capture, imprisonment, death.
Like a tireless assassin, she died before his eyes again and again in the most brutal ways, always at the very moment he thought he had finally broken her.
Until the ninety-ninth reset.
Huo Jiuyuan's eyes bloodshot, he seized the blade she thrust at him with his bare hands, blood pooling all around them.
This ruthless emperor, who had always been decisive and merciless, knelt humbly at her feet, his voice shaking uncontrollably.
“Please... stop dying. Take my life, and I'll give you the realm, too.”
