After Saving the Paranoid Chief Secretary

[Blurb] In the sixth year of the Jingsheng era, the newly appointed chief minister, Qin Beixiao, reopened countless old cases. More than a thousand people were implicated. His swift, ruthless methods sent shockwaves through the court. Shen Zhining heard about him many times before finally seeing him once. A troop of cavalry thundered toward her, their hooves rumbling like thunder. At their head rode Qin Beixiao, high on a fine horse, clad in a gold-threaded cloak, his riding crop resting casually in his hand. His cold, merciless eyes never once looked at her. Her family had been destroyed, and she knelt in the snow in tattered clothes, looking like a beggar. Perhaps a fleeting moment of kindness moved him to grant her a small favor. One day, Shen Zhining was reborn. She returned to the time before the Shen family fell from grace, when its school was famous throughout the capital and countless students clamored to enroll. Among them was The future chief minister, Qin Beixiao. But for now, he was the son of a disgraced official, treated with contempt by everyone. When Shen Zhining found him, he was covered in wounds and lying on a bed, barely alive. She didn't hesitate. She saved him. And in the days that followed, she continued to treat him well and protect him, never allowing anyone to bully him. When he finally held power in his hands and entered the cabinet as chief minister, she thought that she had repaid her debt and could leave. But Qin Beixiao wouldn't let her. The chief minister, whom everyone believed to be cruel, merciless, and without a single weakness, had madness in his eyes. His large hand gently stroked her pale neck as he laughed hoarsely. "You want to leave? Fine. Why don't we take the road to the underworld together and cross the Bridge of Helplessness? Then we can be a loving couple in our next lives, too." Reading guide: 1. Updates daily at 9:00 p.m. 2. One man, one woman; neither has been with anyone else. 3. Fictional setting with many original elements. Next book, I Married My Ex's Uncle After My Engagement Was Broken, now open for preorders. Please add it to your collection! Ming Fu's family fell into ruin. Before her mother died, she told Ming Fu to go to the capital and seek help from the Duke of Wei's household, where she would fulfill the marriage contract arranged by their fathers years ago. Her mother believed Ming Fu would finally have a good life there. But after being reborn, Ming Fu knew that no one in the Duke of Wei's household had ever taken her seriously. They only saw her as a laughingstock. They used her, looked down on her, and humiliated her. Her noble and aloof fiance, Gu Lingyu, announced in front of the duke, the marquises, and the clan elders that he wanted to break off their engagement. He was already sick of her. In the end, someone accidentally pushed her into a lake, where she drowned. When she woke, she found herself back at the time when she had just arrived at the Duke of Wei's household. Remembering all the hardships of her previous life, she turned her attention to Gu Lingyu's formidable great-uncle, the powerful regent Xiao Qianjing, who even Gu Lingyu feared. The people of the Duke of Wei's household had no idea. The Ming Fu they looked down on was cautious and meek by day, yet dared to bite the unpredictable Xiao Qianjing at night. Xiao Qianjing merely glanced with amusement at the faint pink bite mark on his hand, then held his finger to Ming Fu's lips and murmured, "Want to bite me again?" Theme: Your fate is in your own hands