The Possessive Male Lead Wants to Keep Me Hidden in a Golden House

Wen Li transmigrates into a melodramatic school romance novel as its sweet, delicate campus belle heroine.

She’s destined to be forced into a relationship by the obsessive male lead, locked away in a gilded cage, and ultimately killed without a body left behind.

Wen Li: Run! I have to run!

So whenever Wen Li sees the male lead, she takes a detour and tries not to speak to him.

To avoid running into him, Wen Li often stays home and surfs the internet, enjoying a leisurely, happy life.

One day, Wen Li downloads an app called Soulmate.

Its algorithm matches her with a male online friend who’s a perfect 100% match.

Her online friend keeps her company while she does homework on voice chat, plays games with her, and often sends her red envelopes.

Wen Li feels lucky to have met him and starts a sweet online romance with him.

On Valentine’s Day, her online friend sends her a photo of his abs, with his face cropped out, and invites her to meet in person.

Blushing and flustered, she goes to meet him.

To her surprise, her online friend is Xie Ran, the obsessive male lead!

Xie Ran gives her a wicked smile, takes her little hand, and kisses the back of it. “Darling, we finally meet.”

Wen Li: “...”

If she breaks up with him now, will Xie Ran lock her away in a golden house?!

[Overbearing, obsessive school bully male lead] VS [Easygoing, adorable campus belle heroine]

Note: The male lead does not imprison the heroine in this story. The imprisonment is part of the novel within the story, not something that happens in reality.

Please add my new novel, In a Year of Famine, I Have a System to Feed My Family Meat, to your reading list. Thank you!

Blurb:

Lin Xiaotao transmigrates to an ancient land in the midst of famine, becoming a shrew accused of cheating on her husband. Everyone hates her.

Her husband, Xie Rumo, despises her and refuses to have anything to do with her.

She isn’t worried at all, because she has a farming System that can pinpoint every wild edible on the mountain.

Today she digs up wild greens, tomorrow she finds a ginseng root someone missed, the day after that she discovers a reishi mushroom, and the day after that she adopts a little tiger cub.

While the whole village chews on tree bark, Lin Xiaotao treats her family to a feast every day and lives a carefree, happy life.

Even the world-famous handsome miracle-working doctor falls head over heels for her.

One day, the handsome doctor gives Lin Xiaotao a gold hairpin shaped like a leafy branch.

She beams with delight and chats happily with him.

Xie Rumo’s face darkens, but he says nothing.

That night, Xie Rumo ravages Lin Xiaotao so fiercely that he even breaks the bed!

Lin Xiaotao cries out again and again, her face flushed as she begs, “Husband, please, have mercy!”

Xie Rumo gives her a mocking smile.

“You forced me to marry you, didn’t you? Isn’t this what you wanted? Why are you pretending?”

Lin Xiaotao: “...”

Later, Xie Rumo goes hunting in the mountains and catches a green peacock.

He spends a fortune having the peacock feathers sent to the Embroidery Workshop, where he commissions a soft, gauzy silk dress decorated with peacock feathers for Lin Xiaotao.

The whole village is dazzled by the dress. Every woman envies Lin Xiaotao for winning Xie Rumo’s affection.

Lin Xiaotao is flattered and asks Xie Rumo in confusion,

“Don’t you hate me? Why did you give me a peacock-feather dress?”

Xie Rumo gives her a wicked smile, leans close to her ear, and murmurs,

“I gave you that dress so I could take it off you myself.”

Lin Xiaotao’s face turns bright red. “Y-You’re so bad!”

Xie Rumo grips her chin, his tone suggestive.

“You call that bad? Tonight, I’ll show you what being bad really means.”

[Overbearing, wild hunter male lead] VS [Easygoing, adorable kitten-like heroine]

Moral: Stay optimistic and calm, and turn the tables against all odds.