[A vindictive, scheming, frail beauty x a possessive, overbearing, mad-dog power minister]
[Coercive Possession | Push and Pull on Both Sides | Groveling Pursuit of His Wife | The Powerful One Bows His Head]
Chang Xiang has an eye condition and keeps her eyes covered with a strip of white silk. After living under someone else's roof for years, she lost the last valuable thing she had: her engagement to Fei Shao, a young man from a prestigious family.
Unwilling to let her cousin take the marriage without a fight, she sneaked to the Fei household to confront them.
Behind the tightly shut vermilion gates, she nervously clutched the sleeve of a man returning through the snowy night, her slender frame swaying.
"Fei Shao, you can break off our engagement, but then you have to marry me to your powerful uncle, the one who rules the court. What belongs to me, Chang Xiang, can't be worse than what anyone else gets."
Fei Shao's uncle was the grand secretary, Fei Zhiyan. The world called him a demon among men. Peerlessly handsome, he was a thoroughly wicked and arrogant minister, feared by gods and ghosts alike, and devoted to profit above all else.
She said she wanted to be the chief minister's wife, not knowing that the man she'd stopped was Fei Zhiyan himself.
Fei Zhiyan looked at the signature on the paper. Knowing full well she'd mistaken him for someone else, he smiled maliciously and tore up the marriage contract. "You're blind. What makes you think you can?"
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In the end, Chang Xiang followed her cousin to the Fei household when she married into the family.
On the night her cousin and Fei Shao consummated their marriage, Chang Xiang was so furious that she gritted her teeth and climbed into the head of the household Fei Zhiyan's bed. By morning, there were two women in the Fei residence.
Fei Zhiyan kept her only as a plaything, casually calling her "blind girl." She was just the sort he liked best: gentle and obedient, tender in every way, and, whenever he was in the mood, quite willing to take the initiative, with bold moves and a shy, sweet voice.
Little by little, she coaxed Fei Zhiyan into curing her eyes.
She thought a life of light lay ahead, but when the blindfold finally came off and Fei Zhiyan's sharp phoenix eyes met her own watery gaze, he fell strangely silent for three days.
Then came a storm of violence. He ravaged her even more mercilessly, leaving her dazed day and night, unable to see daylight.
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Once her sight returned, Chang Xiang was like a precious gem wiped clean of dust, and her beauty drew covetous eyes. Fei Shao, who had once broken off their engagement, defied propriety and secretly planned to take her away with him.
To use him to escape Fei Zhiyan, Chang Xiang readily agreed.
On the day they tried to flee, the most elite troops at the man's command surrounded her at the city gate.
That night, Fei Zhiyan came beneath the moonlight, his brocade robe stained with blood. He tore off her undergarment and bound it around their fingers as he violently entwined them.
"Xiangxiang, what's so fun about Fei Shao, that worthless old shoe?"
The man's laughter by her ear was delighted and sinister, his breath scorching against her neck.
"Let's play something more exciting, shall we?"
Theme: Have the courage to survive adversity
