The Garden of Spring's End

A Yuan is a rare medicinal human, one of the few in the world.

Her blood can cure every strange illness.

After her husband bought her freedom, she stayed in his household, obedient and proper.

Then her identity as a medicinal human was exposed, and she was forced to enter the imperial palace to cure the emperor's chronic illness. By day, her blood had to be mixed into medicine. At night, she had to serve as the medicine herself, warming the emperor's bed.

Everyone envied her for being the only woman close to the emperor, but only A Yuan knew that he had always considered her base and filthy.

She endured the pain of having her blood drawn and the humiliation of being made to serve him, swallowing her grievances in the inner palace. All she hoped for was that once the emperor recovered, he would let her leave the palace and reunite with her husband.

When the day finally came for her to leave, she thought her suffering was over. But in the blink of an eye, the emperor dragged her back into her cage.

Though he had always found her filthy, now he kept her in his arms night after night, never satisfied.

Since ascending the throne, Emperor Xiao Ce had kept his harem empty. He had suffered from a chronic illness for years, and over time it had made him unpredictable and irritable. He had no interest in romance.

Then one day, a minister presented him with a medicinal human. It was said that her illness could be cured by mixing her blood into medicine and sleeping with her regularly.

Xiao Ce immediately brought her into the palace. The medicinal human had skin like ice and jade, and was breathtakingly beautiful. He assumed she would be like other women and do everything in her power to please him.

To his surprise, after entering the palace, she behaved herself and even begged to leave and reunite with her husband once the emperor was cured. Xiao Ce found this amusing and promised to grant her leave from the palace, indulging her wish to return to that husband who was of no consequence.

But after she truly left, he became as if possessed, dreaming every night of her slender waist and skin as soft and white as snow... Every inch of her set his heart aflame.

And when he saw with his own eyes how close she was to her husband, jealousy drove him mad. He could no longer suppress the surging passion within him.

He decided to break his promise and keep her trapped at his side forever.

What Xiao Ce never imagined was that a medicinal human would rather die than submit.

And after she died, he, who had always been able to obtain whatever he wanted, finally learned what it meant to long for something he could never have.

1. The female lead is not a virgin; the male lead is.

2. Forced possession, obsessive love, and a desperate pursuit after the damage is done. The male lead uses cruel methods.

Premise: If you love someone, you love them.