After the Fall of Her Kingdom, the Eldest Princess Is Imprisoned and Doted on by a Mad Minister

[Possessive romance + two strong leads locked in a struggle + fallen princess vs. mad power-wielding minister + groveling to win her back + long-laid plans]

The Great Yuan dynasty fell. To protect her young brother, the crown prince, the once exalted Princess Shen Mingyue was forced to kneel in the swirling snow and beg for mercy from Xiao Jin, the newly risen minister who had just conquered the capital.

Three years earlier, Xiao Jin had been nothing more than a lowly slave in her princess's residence, someone anyone could trample underfoot.

She had even once stood on him and left him with a humiliating whip scar.

Xiao Jin raised her chin with the bloodied tip of his sword. His gaze was sinister and feverishly intense.

“Your Highness, how do you plan to repay what you owed me back then?”

Shen Mingyue gritted her teeth and lifted her long, snow-white neck. “Kill me or carve me up. Do as you please.”

Instead, he suddenly laughed, swept her into his arms, and strode straight toward the imperial bed that had once been beyond her reach.

“How could I bear to kill Your Highness? As for the interest...”

He lowered his voice, his heated breath washing over her ear. Madness and obsession were unmistakable in his tone.

“I ask only that Your Highness repay me night after night.”

Everyone thought the Prince Regent hated the princess and had imprisoned her in the inner palace to torment her in every way.

Only Shen Mingyue knew that, by day, they were bitter enemies at court,

while at night this powerful, unhinged man pinned her firmly against the imperial throne, eyes red as he begged in desperation:

“Your Highness, it's late!”