After Sharing the Senses of the Obsessive Chief Councilor

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Jiang Wanshu is terrified of Lu Que, her brother-in-law in name only.

After a devastating flood, Jiang Wanshu follows her elder sister to the imperial capital to seek shelter.

By then, Lu Que, her sister's childhood betrothed, has become the youngest chief grand secretary in history.

He advises the young emperor, holds the vermilion brush, commands life and death, and wields power over the entire court.

When she first sees him from afar, a scholar blocks his carriage in the street and berates him, listing his ten crimes.

The carriage curtain lifts slightly, revealing the cool, distant eyes of the young chief grand secretary.

"Beat him to death here in the street."

The killing is meant to serve as a warning. Screams ring out without end, and blood flows for a hundred feet.

Jiang Wanshu has nightmares for days. After taking up residence in the Chief Grand Secretary's manor, she doesn't dare say a single word to him.

*

Though Jiang Wanshu's status is inferior to that of her legitimate elder sister, she has stunning looks, a delicate face, and a naturally alluring figure.

She makes full use of her advantages and successfully catches the attention of Young Marquis Song of the Duke of Zhennan's household.

But before she can achieve her lofty ambition of becoming the marquis's principal wife, she and Lu Que are both thrown into a river during an assassination attempt.

When she wakes, Jiang Wanshu is clearly uninjured, yet her arm hurts so much she can barely lift it.

At the same time, Lu Que inexplicably suffers unbearable abdominal pain, as if he were being cut with a knife.

The physician makes his diagnosis in horror. "My lord, you... you're menstruating!"

Lu Que: "..."

*

Forced to share her fate and senses with Lu Que, Jiang Wanshu sees all her beautiful dreams shattered.

Before long, the Duke of Zhennan's household is implicated in a treason case, and Young Marquis Song, who has yet to come ask for her hand, is exiled three thousand li away.

Months later, on the day of the Chief Grand Secretary's wedding, Jiang Wanshu packs her belongings and runs away.

But she is intercepted along the way.

Lu Que, dressed in wedding robes and riding a tall horse, gazes down with deep, fathomless eyes, a strange smile creeping across them.

"Wanshu, where are you going when you won't behave?"

He leisurely draws his bow to full tension and aims at Young Marquis Song, who has come to meet her.

"Anyone sentenced to military service who flees their place of exile is guilty and shall be shot on the spot."

"Will you be a doomed couple on the run, or come back with me? Wanshu, choose."

*

On their wedding night, the curtains sway.

Lu Que's face is handsome and refined. One hand grips Jiang Wanshu's pale neck, while the other tenderly strokes the beautiful curve of her shoulder blade.

Jiang Wanshu pleads in a trembling voice, "I love someone else. You can't do this..."

Lu Que lets out a short laugh. "He's unmarried, and you're not wed. Why can't I?"

"Wanshu, you and I share our senses. Our marriage is fated. Anyone who dares interfere, I'll kill."

Reader's guide:

A scheming beauty x an obsessive chief grand secretary

Forced marriage, stealing the woman he loves, and an obsessive chief grand secretary who pursues his wife after she leaves him.

Note: An accident in the water gives them the golden finger of sharing all five senses.

Core theme: You have to fight for your own happiness.