The Villainous Power Minister's Long-Dead White Moonlight

Ning Ning was the least favored legitimate youngest daughter in the household of a low-ranking official in the capital. She was breathtakingly beautiful, with looks beyond compare.

She thought she would marry the heir of the Marquis of Ping, her childhood sweetheart, and live out her days in peace.

But when she saw the powerful Prince of Anyang at her coming-of-age ceremony, she learned that she was the doomed white moonlight of a villainous regent in a book.

In the story, the regent Xiao Mo, Prince of Anyang, fell for her at first sight and kept her in his mansion, lavishing her with gold and pampering her as his favorite in the spring boudoir.

But Xiao Mo was capricious and violent. He forbade her from leaving or seeing her family, and his possessiveness knew no bounds. Whenever she showed the slightest lingering affection for her childhood sweetheart, he subjected her to a storm of cruel torment.

At last, Ning Ning couldn't take it anymore. She conspired with the hero and heroine to kill Xiao Mo, but he saw through their plan. The hero and heroine were exiled thousands of miles away, while Xiao Mo locked Ning Ning up, and she died of grief.

For the ten years after her death, Xiao Mo grew more brutal and sinister from losing the woman he loved. He unleashed bloodshed and slaughtered the powerful, turning the imperial capital into a nightmare with a mere wave of his hand.

Having seen what lay ahead, Ning Ning broke out in a cold sweat. Then she saw Xiao Mo, the Prince of Anyang rumored to be terrifying and taciturn, gazing at her with a gentle smile.

"The gardeners in my residence have recently cultivated several Snow Crown Orchids. My lady, would you care to see them?"

Ning Ning remembered that in the book, her family had sent her to serve him in bed in exchange for her father's rapid rise to power.

She couldn't help shrinking back. "C-could I... not go?"

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Xiao Mo had always been cold, abstinent, and ruthless. He never imagined that one day he would go mad for a woman and do every absurd thing under the sun.

A tender, delicate beauty vs. a mad regent.

A groveling pursuit of his wife.

Theme: Rekindling an old love