The first time Lin Wan saw Xiao Yan, her mind exploded with a single thought: I'm doomed!
He was Jiangning's most talented scholar, a future top scorer who would become famous across the land. He had a childhood sweetheart and a white-moonlight love, and he'd achieve success in both love and career. He was the male lead.
She was the daughter of a renowned scholar, a cannon-fodder supporting character who'd been blinded by love and schemed to force him into marriage. A terrible start from the very beginning.
Lin Wan awakened to the truth and immediately grabbed her shoes and ran.
After that, she avoided him at every turn, dodging him day after day. She even did everything she could, openly and behind the scenes, to bring him and the heroine together.
So why wasn't he happy? Why did he look like he was going to devour her?
Lin Wan thought to herself: It was wrong of her to scheme to get into his bed and force him to marry her. She couldn't blame him for being angry.
But sure, be angry all you want. Coming back to get revenge by climbing into her bed is taking things too far!
Could he please stick to his character?
Lin Wan had thought she'd be safe as long as she kept her head down until the male lead took the imperial examinations.
Who could have guessed that a powerful noble from the capital would drag her into a deadly contest in the capital all by himself?
When they met again, he was a close confidant of the emperor, while she was a woman of a scholarly family with no backing, slowly falling into the grasp of the powerful.
The man who could turn the clouds with one hand and bring rain with the other unleashed an absolute possessiveness.
The man who had once been cool and self-controlled abandoned his usual gentleness, becoming obsessively and wildly competitive, fighting to claim her.
As two powerful men fought over her, she became the center of the maelstrom, no longer able to stay out of it. Pulled in both directions, Lin Wan was on the verge of tears.
And no one had told her that this hidden Boss was also a male lead!
[Academy arc + capital arc, realistic slow burn, two powerful rivals, a slightly scheming little white lotus, a touch of strategy and political intrigue]
