Breaking Off a Golden Branch

* The male lead is a white-haired, beautiful, strong, and tragic character, powerful and obsessive

* Currently preparing the manuscript. The blurb will be polished before the novel begins

Cold, ambitious, and deranged emperor x delicate, frail beauty / married first, love later / face-slapping romance

Jiang Nanzhi transmigrates into a book. To stay alive, the System tells her to win over the book's supporting male character, Jiang Ci.

The System describes him as gentle as jade, but the original Jiang Nanzhi only started suffering from a high fever and losing her mind after seeing him once.

In her heart, Jiang Nanzhi slowly put a question mark beside that description.

After the System assured her again and again, Jiang Nanzhi decided to see him for herself. She had expected to meet a sinister and terrifying Jiang Ci.

Instead, she saw Jiang Ci living in a shabby courtyard with a lame leg, smiling blankly whenever anyone approached.

When Jiang Nanzhi spoke to him, he smiled and pointed to his ear.

It turned out he couldn't hear.

Oh, right. Jiang Nanzhi had transmigrated into the book at the very beginning of the story.

Back then, no one cared whether he lived or died. He was nothing but a withered, broken leaf wandering alone beneath the heavens.

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Jiang Nanzhi had never met anyone like him. No matter how unfairly he was treated, Jiang Ci always brushed it off with a smile and never got angry.

Jiang Nanzhi thought she had misunderstood Jiang Ci.

She had to protect him. Someone as good-natured as Jiang Ci would get bullied.

Jiang Nanzhi had always thought Jiang Ci really was like water, gentle and mild, until that day

By chance, she came upon Jiang Ci smiling as he snapped the wrists and ankles of the spoiled young man who was always trying to bully her, using just one hand.

As she watched him struggle and howl, Jiang Ci's smile only grew wider...

Then he crushed the broken bones in his wrists, one by one...

Jiang Nanzhi: ?!

Jiang Ci had never met anyone like her before. She was clearly afraid, yet still refused to leave. Most ridiculous of all, she actually felt sorry for him. She actually thought he was good.

Jiang Ci smiled.

Would a delicate young lady like her still say such naive things if she saw him at his most terrifying?

Who would have thought

She crossed a field of corpses, her teeth chattering with fear, yet still nervously clasped his hand and softly asked, "Does it hurt?"

Jiang Ci's wrist bones trembled almost imperceptibly.

He held her tightly.

If she chose to stay, then she would never escape again.

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Jiang Nanzhi: Mission accomplished!

Notes:

1. One-on-one, both leads' first time. The setting is very loosely based on reality, with plenty of original worldbuilding, so please don't scrutinize it too closely. The characters' views are not the author's views. Love you all!!!

2. As always, this is a redemption story with a very deranged male lead.

Theme: Perseverance in the face of setbacks.