[A possessive, unhinged young marshal crippled by injury + a haughty heiress who uses her money to "keep" the future marshal]
Huo Jingshen, the adopted son of the military governor's household, was noble and cold, commanding troops from a young age. He was the iron-fisted young marshal whom everyone in Beiping feared.
Yu Wan, the banker's pampered, money-loving daughter, had been betrothed to Huo Jingshen since childhood.
Huo Jingshen was ruthless and decisive with everyone else, but spoiled her without limit.
Then, the month after the military governor was assassinated, political enemies struck back.
The Huo faction's old guard was wiped out, leaving rivers of blood. Huo Jingshen had his Achilles tendons severed and both legs broken, then was thrown into a black prison and left a cripple.
On the night he was imprisoned, he sent Yu Wan a letter breaking off their engagement, along with all his private assets, every word firmly telling her to fly free.
Yu Wan stared at the chest of gold bars, ready to flee in the middle of the night, but the night before, she had burned with a fever and had a nightmare.
She dreamed that three years later, Huo Jingshen had recovered, bathed Beiping in blood, and locked her, after she fled with his money, in a golden cage in the military governor's residence, where he tormented her day and night...
