[Brooding, possessive heir + vicious female rival + madman pretending to be obedient + coercive push and pull]
Her husband died.
He left his entire fortune, worth hundreds of millions, to a man of unknown origins.
Xie Qingyu thought he was after the money.
But when he placed an agreement in front of her, he refused to take a single cent.
He asked for only one thing:
"Let me stay."
And so the man stayed by her side, keeping his head down and playing the obedient servant.
Quiet, compliant, and almost excessively restrained.
She told him to leave, but he stayed.
She ordered him around, and he lowered his eyes and said, "All right."
He was so well-behaved, you'd think he didn't have a temper at all.
But gradually, Xie Qingyu realized something was wrong.
The men around her who didn't know when to quit seemed to suffer one misfortune after another.
Then, late one night, the man pinned her in his arms and asked in a hoarse voice:
"You really don't know why I stayed?"
Xie Qingyu's heart began to race.
"I don't know."
He stared at her, then suddenly smiled.
Later, in a locked drawer belonging to Gu Yanchi, she found a bloodstained piece of old gauze...
It was the bandage she'd removed and thrown away the first time she had dressed his wound.
It turned out he had never been obedient.
He was just very good at pretending.
Obedient?
He was absolutely insane.
