After a breakup, modern-day female author Qin Sang furiously wrote eight more chapters of an angst-filled novel, putting the vicious supporting character Shen Jiayue through having her fingers cut off and being thrown into a snake pit, and writing with great relish. When she woke up, she'd transmigrated into her own book, becoming the vicious supporting character who had the male lead tied to a bed, drugged him with a potent aphrodisiac, and was about to face her comeuppance.
Male lead Xie Yun: ruthless, vengeful, in charge of the Imperial Prison and its interrogations. One order from him could make someone disappear without a trace. According to the plot she'd written, in half an hour rescuers would break in. She would be thrown into a dark cell, have her fingers chopped off one by one, and then be tossed into a snake pit.
Qin Sang immediately turned the plot around: she gave him the antidote, swallowed the drug herself, then rushed outside shouting, "Xie Yun drugged me!" She pinned the charge of "imprisoning the Imperial Tutor's legitimate daughter" firmly on him.
At eight years old, Xie Yun had watched all twenty-six members of the Xie family be executed. He'd endured seventeen years before climbing to the position of head of the Imperial Prison Bureau, with only one thing on his mind: overturn the verdict and take revenge.
But Shen Jiayue barged into his life at precisely this moment. She had saved his life and now kept him awake at night.
He hated the way she made his heart soften against his will. Once a blade grew warm, it could no longer cut down his enemies.
He had meant to kill her, but every time he saw her, he liked her a little more. Even when she did nothing, merely standing before him, it felt as if invisible hooks were tugging at his cold, hardened heart.
This soul-deep, uncontrollable itch both satisfied and tempted him, yet made him wary, and he couldn't break free of it.
He deliberately drew closer, both indulging in the way she stirred his heart and telling himself he only wanted to see through her, keep a close watch on her, and kill her when the time came.
Later, he suddenly saw things clearly: this entanglement had been his one-sided obsession from beginning to end. She didn't like him? Then he'd take her for himself.
