Her uncle, who had been assassinated and killed half a year ago, came back to life.
The entire Li family was overcome with joy,
except Li Wanxiang, who noticed
that a sinister darkness lurked in the eyes of her usually gentle and humble uncle.
She had lost both parents as a child and lived on tenterhooks in the Li household, where anyone could walk all over her.
Compared with her uncle, who was the talk of the town,
she was nothing but mud beneath his feet, and she didn't dare read too much into things.
But one night, she saw that very uncle with her own eyes.
He slit someone's throat and drained their blood beneath the cover of darkness. As the blood spread at his feet, he was like a demon, shedding his human skin.
His hidden guards addressed him as the Crown Prince.
She had wanted to keep her head down and stay alive, pretending she knew nothing,
but she was forced into a marriage that would cost her life.
To survive, she took a dangerous gamble and knocked on his door.
"What makes you think I'll help you?" The gentleness on his face shattered, and he smiled like a mad dog.
"Because... because you have feelings for me..." she said with difficulty.
Xie Xian gazed at her with an unreadable expression.
After that night,
she became his bedmate.
He was tender with her every day, yet never held back.
She got the marriage called off as she had hoped, but from then on, she became his puppet.
Xie Xian was the Crown Prince, yet his siblings betrayed him and his family abandoned him.
Framed in a conspiracy, he was imprisoned in the lowest, most wretched of dungeons, tortured for half a year, and left with a chronic illness.
He was neither human nor ghost.
His sole reason for living was to reclaim the imperial throne.
He put on a mask and took the place of a son of the powerful Li family.
He carefully maneuvered his way forward, yet kept running into his orphaned, adrift niece.
She was alone and helpless, yet her body gave off a peculiar fragrance that triggered his chronic illness.
He had never intended to touch her, but she came right to him.
So she had no one to blame but herself.
[Reader's Guide]
Includes forced possession, groveling for forgiveness, and plenty of melodramatic tropes.
The male lead is a mad dog, the kind who isn't normal.
The heroine will fake her death and run away.
Theme: Struggle until you break through the soil.
