Ambitious schemer x lovesick obsessive | Two strong leads | Love and hate | A sea of bitter love | Feigned affection mingled with genuine feelings
"Let us scheme against each other and offer up that tiny, pitiful bit of sincerity, so we can keep walking down this seemingly endless road."
The Great Chu Princess You Jinshu was dazzlingly talented, and every man in the realm considered it an honor to receive even a glance from her. But she was stubborn to the bone. On the day the Sui army breached the walls of Chu's capital, she refused to coexist with the rebels and jumped from the city wall.
Yet she survived, and became a maid to the Sui kingdom's eldest princess.
The eldest princess spoke gently to others, but was harsh with her. Everyone in the household fawned over those of high status and trampled those below them, making her wash clothes in the river in winter and tend the fire in the kitchen in summer.
When the time was right, she took revenge on the eldest princess and burned down her residence.
Her next target was the woman's nephew, Xiao Jinian.
Xiao Jinian had been raised by his aunt from childhood, and he was deeply indebted to her. Naturally, he respected and cherished her.
On the day he was on his way to visit his aunt, falling blossoms rained down, and a young woman stirred his lust. Better to cherish her by molding her into someone useful to him, until she could no longer live without him.
So, on the night the eldest princess's residence caught fire, he deliberately played the hero and saved the beauty, hiding her in his own home and telling her lies about loving her. She never objected, so surely she must be madly in love with him. Perhaps he should indulge her a little and make her even more devoted.
Until one day, she pointed a sword at him.
# She must have both his hatred and his love
# The female lead trains her dog 🐶
[Reader's Guide]
☆ No extreme hostility, please. I just want everyone to have fun together.
☆ The male lead is crazy and sick, a genuinely obsessive yandere with a shocking sense of right and wrong.
☆ The male lead is pure in body and mind, and only loves the female lead.
☆ A pair of evenly matched lovers on opposing sides.
☆ The female lead has the upper hand in the relationship and becomes emperor in the end.
Theme: I want fierce love and a spectacular death
