The Nightingale's Cage

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Powerful, influential Beijing tycoon x clear-headed, strong-willed female student

Forbidden romance | Angsty melodrama | Coercive pursuit | Eight-year age gap

Fu Jinghuai, the eldest young master of the Fu family, fell out with his family over a woman and rejected an arranged marriage with the He family.

The eldest daughter of the He family was humiliated and couldn't let it go, so she went to her uncle, He Rongtan, for help.

He Rongtan, head of the He family, was powerful and influential, refined and aloof. For years, he had kept himself away from women.

In the depths of winter, as heavy snow fell, he met the lover Fu Jinghuai had kept hidden away.

Ying Shi stood in the snow, her face pale, her slender neck bowed, her eyes lowered as if she were beneath the dust. In a faint voice, she begged him to spare Fu Jinghuai.

Rather than the frivolous beauty in the rumors, she seemed more like a hopeless nightingale.

Later, He Rongtan clasped that nightingale in the palm of his hand.

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Ying Shi had been with Fu Jinghuai since she was eighteen.

Born into humble circumstances and stubborn by nature, she had spent three years with him to no avail.

When Fu Jinghuai said he was going to marry for the sake of an alliance, Ying Shi silently chose to leave.

She had been a stand-in for the woman he loved, and he had paid for her education for three years. They could part on good terms.

So at the time, no one could have imagined that the eldest young master of the Fu family would go mad for her, throwing caution to the wind.

Just as Ying Shi could never have imagined that

someone as revered and refined as He Rongtan would one day

seize her wrist and threaten her in an indifferent tone: "You have no choice but to marry me."

Reading guide:

1. A powerful, influential, ruthless tycoon x a clear-headed, strong-willed female student. One-on-one romance, both leads are sexually inexperienced.

2. Daily updates, guaranteed completion. ("/ω\")

3. The male lead is genuinely unhinged: very crazy, but also very doting. Eight-year age gap, forbidden romance, angst, coercive pursuit, stealing her from another man, a story written to indulge the author's tastes. The female lead and the second male lead are a couple. No cheating.

Theme: Finding harmony with the world