The thing Fu Yao regretted most in her life was running away with Lin Hanzhang's enemy.
After that day, not only did she become Lin Hanzhang's captive, but he also forced her to draw a bow and shoot that person dead with her own hands.
Lin Hanzhang was always telling her that she was just like her mother, that they were both selfish, hypocritical villains.
Her mother had gone mad over a man. She killed her husband and daughter, imprisoned her old lover, and when she failed to force him into marriage, she killed his wife and turned him into an evil corpse, throwing the whole world into chaos.
A once-loving couple died together, leaving behind a little boy to struggle on alone.
That unfortunate boy was Lin Hanzhang.
Lin Hanzhang hated Fu Yao, but he didn't kill her. He kept her in the Jade Tower, a little bird hidden away from the world at his side.
Fu Yao knew her place and had always been very obedient.
Outside, Lin Hanzhang was an unattainable Immortal Lord, while she was a lowly spy.
Behind closed doors, Lin Hanzhang was a secretive, violent demon, and Fu Yao was the captive he desired.
Lin Hanzhang hated that Fu Yao's features looked a little like her mother's. He hated the way she bit her lip when she cried. He hated how much he cared about her.
He was no paragon of virtue. He directed his most painful, darkest desires at Fu Yao.
Yet Lin Hanzhang nearly died saving her, trying to restore the spiritual roots that had been crushed.
That day, Lin Hanzhang's flesh rotted away in great patches, revealing the blue-white bones beneath.
Fu Yao looked coldly at the dying Lin Hanzhang, took the immortal artifact, and ran without looking back.
My mother went mad for love, killed her husband, and brought disaster upon the world, turning a good land into a pool of blood.
And Fu Yao surpassed her, taking the immortal artifact Lin Hanzhang had traded his life to obtain and throwing herself without a backward glance into the arms of his enemy.
Fu Yao had had enough of life in the Jade Tower and couldn't wait to escape.
She wished Lin Hanzhang would just die of his illness. She hated him, feared him, dreaded him, and never wanted him by her side.
When they met again, her former lover personally handed Fu Yao over to Lin Hanzhang.
The day Lin Hanzhang dragged Fu Yao back, he didn't kill her.
He branded her and forced her to draw her bow and kill someone with her own hands.
Then he locked her in the Jade Tower and tormented her day and night, stopping only when she was barely able to breathe.
As long as Lin Hanzhang lived, he would possess her by force and never yield an inch.
If she died, he would dig a grave in the middle of the courtyard and bury her remains directly across from the bed, sleeping each night with her dry bones as his pillow.
The beautiful blade that should have been used for revenge ultimately turned on him instead.
Tortured romance | A love steeped in hatred | Possessive love | Old-school melodrama | Coercive romance | Deranged male lead | The male lead begs for his wife back | A rotten man with a sincere heart
Not a conventional xianxia story
Many original worldbuilding details
The male lead is incredibly evil, utterly insane, completely unhinged!
Probably a childhood-to-adult romance
Theme: A person of virtue and integrity, whose reputation is admired far and wide
