The Chancellor Xie's Darling, Busy Fleeing for Her Life!

[Forbidden Tension + Long-Planned Pursuit + Both Leads Have Only Ever Loved Each Other + Sweet Romance | Frail Beauty vs. Young Chief Minister]

The frail beauty Su Fuyao likes to attach herself to the powerful. A month after seeking refuge in the Prime Minister's manor, she sees her cousin, the Prime Minister, just once, then has nightmares about him killing her for three nights straight.

She wakes drenched in cold sweat and immediately changes her ways. She no longer dares to cozy up to the powerful, won't even accept anything he offers, and only wants to move out of the Xie manor to save her life.

The more afraid she is, the closer he gets. The more she tries to hide, the harder he pursues her.

Xie Cilan is as gentle and refined as jade, yet presses her at every turn. "Why are you hiding? Do you think I might eat you?"

Su Fuyao huddles in the corner with her bundle, tears streaming down her face.

His fingertip brushes the corner of her eye. "Little Fuyao, please keep cozying up to the powerful. Cozy up to me, the Prime Minister, all right?"

The eldest young master of the Xie manor, a physician to the imperial household: "Your heart condition can be cured. I've found a way to exchange one heart for another."

Su Fuyao: How terrifying!!

The third young master of the Xie manor, a young general: "I saw Fuyao once, and now I'm ruined for life."

Su Fuyao: How terrifying!!

The women of the Xie manor: How can that frail fox be so overflowing with devious charm? It's not fair!

[One-line summary: The story of how the Prime Minister Xie, second only to the emperor and above all others, secretly planned all along to pursue the frail, breathtakingly beautiful orphan girl who sought refuge with him, even as he struggled against the forbidden strictures of propriety.]