Gu Xinwei was raised by Old Madam Gu for twenty-two years.
She learned music, chess, calligraphy, and painting, as well as political and business strategy. Even her skin had been soaked in medicinal baths made with a hundred ingredients until it was soft and flawless. She was the Gu family's most perfect creation.
Then the old madam told her that the young master of the Pei family had returned.
The Gu and Pei families had a marriage agreement, so she would go marry him.
Pei Yejin sneered. "A daughter of the Gu family? I won't marry her."
Until he saw the photograph:
The little girl who had crouched down to wipe his face and put candy in his mouth outside the orphanage eighteen years ago was her.
"I'll marry her." He pressed the photograph to his chest. "I'll marry her right now."
On their wedding night, the man pinned her against the wall and leaned close to her ear, his voice hoarse, as if it had traveled through time from eighteen years ago:
"Gu Xinwei, I've waited eighteen years for that candy. At last, you've given me a second piece."
He stepped back half a pace and looked down at her, his eyes brimming with an obsession so deep it seemed impossible to dissolve.
"This time, I won't let you leave again."
Pure-yet-seductive heiress × possessive, unhinged tycoon
