In the capital, there is a jade-faced gentleman, a demon in the guise of a judge of the dead. Outwardly upright and honorable, inwardly rotten and dark.
Everyone thinks Pei Zhan, an Inspectorate commissioner, is a refined, proper, perfectly normal man.
Even Pei Zhan sometimes thinks so. When the occasion calls for it, he kindly warns subordinates who have been led astray by a woman's beauty.
"Your Miss Sang Er is not a kind person. Don't fall too deeply for her and dig your own grave."
It wasn't long before Pei Zhan discovered that the Miss Sang Er his subordinate had fallen for was trying to seduce him.
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Sang Ning has a secret.
Her father is a great traitor, and she is no good person herself.
History records that she had the power to bewitch people's souls, and that men under her spell were as numerous as carp crossing a river. Once a man was no longer useful to her, she would abandon him and erase him.
Everyone says Inspectorate commissioner Pei Zhan is aloof and indifferent, decisive and cold-blooded.
Sang Ning wants to bring this hard nut to heel, toy with him, and use him.
To hone him into her sharpest blade.
But Pei Zhan is dangerous and hard-hearted, and treats others with little regard.
Perhaps the repeated setbacks have put too much pressure on Sang Ning. She begins to hallucinate.
She keeps feeling that someone is watching her in her room, that someone is touching her from behind, following her like a shadow and clinging to her without end.
She decides to give up on Pei Zhan.
Yet the hallucinations only grow worse. In the quiet of the night, when she can't sleep...
He comes clinging to her like a ghost.
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Later, Sang Ning arranges an excellent marriage for herself.
But on her wedding night, her bridal sedan is seized, Sang Ning disappears, and her husband sends countless assassins to track her down and kill her.
Yet in the depths of the forest, the assassins' corpses lie in pools of blood, their heads rolling across the ground.
In a dim underground palace, chains rattle and sway.
Half man and half ghost, Pei Zhan looks dark and unhinged as he grabs her ankle and drags her back. "How pitiful. Why can't you get away?"
Reader's Guide: 1. A cunning, sweet-faced ingenue x a dark, demonic overlord, one-on-one, both leads are each other's first and only.
2. Multiple men compete for the heroine. The male lead is set.
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Theme: Good and evil are always repaid in the end
