(One-on-one romance, both leads are pure, heroine reborn, obsessive male lead, forced marriage, coercive love, and a revenge reckoning.)
As the second daughter of the Duke of Ning’s household, Jiang Zhao was spoiled by her family until she became a selfish, vicious woman obsessed with good looks. To marry Pei Du, the most handsome of the capital’s Sixth Princes, she threw away her dignity and resorted to any means necessary to get into his bed.
Only after she got her wish and became the Sixth Prince’s consort did she realize that his gentleness and generosity were just a mask. The real Pei Du was sinister, ruthless, and utterly unscrupulous. Hiding behind that mask, he rose step by step to become Crown Prince, then trampled over countless corpses to ascend the throne as the supreme ruler.
It wasn’t until she saw her beloved elder sister married off as an older man’s second wife, and her brother, who had lost an arm, volunteer to pacify the frontier for her sake only to die on the battlefield, that Jiang Zhao realized just how terribly wrong she had been!
Everything Pei Du did was revenge for the wrongs she had committed back then! He imprisoned and humiliated her, making her watch as everyone who loved her left one by one. Jiang Zhao could take no more. She stabbed her throat with a gold hairpin, ending her absurd life in a spray of blood!
Reborn, she put away her thorns and deliberately kept her distance from Pei Du. But after all the twists and turns, she still ended up in his hands.
In the bridal chamber, red candles flickering, the man already showing signs of madness pinned her into a corner of the bed. As Jiang Zhao stared at him in terror, he fastened a golden lock around her ankle and whispered maliciously in her ear, “Weren’t you always avoiding your Sixth Brother? Well, now we’re husband and wife, and from this day forward, we’ll be bound together.”
Jiang Zhao remembered everything from her previous life and was too terrified to speak. She never imagined this obsessive, sinister man would turn dark even earlier than he had in her last life!
