After a Night with the Mad, Ambitious Minister

One-night stand to lovers | The powerful one bows his head | He falls first | A touch of forced possession

A ruthless, unhinged minister x a noble-born young lady

In her previous life, Qin Jiayu's father and brothers died on the battlefield. Before their coffins had even returned, she was set up and spent a reckless night with a prince of a different surname who kept a whole harem of concubines. She became the infamous seductress whom everyone in the capital despised.

She was miserable every day, and before long she left her young brother behind and died.

Reborn, Qin Jiayu returned to the night she entered the palace.

She had already drunk the tea that had been tampered with.

The effects of the drug would not wear off. Stumbling about, she had no idea whose room she entered or whose bed she climbed into.

When she opened her eyes again, Qin Jiayu saw the sleeping face of a man so beautiful he seemed demonic, and was scared out of her wits.

The man lying beside her was none other than the regent, a villain who struck terror into people's hearts and threw the court into chaos!

Later, Qin Jiayu used mourning for her father and brothers as an excuse to take her young brother and the tiger tally into a Taoist temple.

Unfortunately, her peaceful days did not last long. The regent came to the temple in person with the young emperor to take her away.

Looking at the imperial edict granting their marriage, Qin Jiayu firmly refused.

"Your subject must mourn her father and brothers for three years!"

Mu Zhen stared at Qin Jiayu's resolute, death-defying expression and smiled inscrutably. "That is fine. I can wait."

She thought she would finally have some peace.

But after an accident left her young brother missing and nowhere to be found, Qin Jiayu had no choice but to swallow her pride and beg Mu Zhen for help.

Seeing her trembling, grief-stricken face, he suddenly smiled, reached out, and pinched her cheek.

"Miss Qin, I never make a deal at a loss."

Long ago, when Mu Zhen was still struggling and crawling through the mire, he caught a glimpse of a bright moon on a spring terrace. From then on, his base desires grew and climbed like vines.

One day, he would ascend the high terrace and seize the moon.

Reader's guide:

1. Most of the potential trigger points are already in the blurb!!

2. The leads have an eight-year age gap! In this life, they are both virgins, both virgins, both virgins!!

3. The male lead has had a crush on the female lead for years.

Theme: Surviving in a chaotic age.