The Princess Drove the Chancellor Mad Again

[Blunt, wooden beauty x scheming, obsessive powerful official]

[The aloof beauty falls from grace for love + domineering pursuit]

That was the first time Jiang Lingwei had ever slept in such a soft bed.

The thin quilt wrapped around her from head to toe. It was the season when the lotus flowers in the imperial garden had withered into dead stalks, yet not a trace of cold could touch her body. A scorching heat surged through her.

Pei Du, Zhou.

Pain pricked the back of her neck. Jiang Lingwei couldn't hold back her cries, though through her haze she wondered: What is Pei Duzhou? Can you eat it?

Of course you can. Strip him bare and eat him, body and soul. Eat him however you like.

A full belly gives rise to lust. Pei Duzhou repeated this to her time and again. People outside said he was a King of Hell who had crawled out of the underworld, and that even looking at him could shorten your life.

Jiang Lingwei couldn't care less. She had been hungry for too long. He was an aloof, unsentimental chancellor, a trusted confidant of the sovereign, a man whose status could even make the crown prince give way. To her, he was still no match for a morsel of red meat, the thought of which haunted her.

But whenever her attention wandered to something other than food, his face would turn cold. "Have I been indulging you too much?"

She immediately dared not stray, and obediently ate him. Only him.

A full belly gives rise to lust...

But Jiang Lingwei must have been a glutton in her previous life. She could never get full. Pei Duzhou wanted her to eat him, to devour him body and soul. She grimaced. She wanted to tell him: I'm sick of eating you! I'm sick of eating you!

She wanted to eat more, and better things.

Whenever that happened, he would soothe her, the glutton whose appetite kept growing, with the lips and tongue she had tasted countless times.

At last, he could no longer satisfy Jiang Lingwei's appetite.

She pushed him away and cursed him with the most vulgar, vile words.

"Do the people of the capital know? The haughty Chancellor Pei is so coquettish in bed, clinging to me like a courtesan. Even the men in brothels aren't as seductive as you!"

"How can you treat me like this?" he forced out, his body seeming ready to collapse at any moment.

He reached out and held her as she resolutely turned to leave. His bearing remained as pure as ever, like a pine standing atop a snowy mountain. Yet, choking back sobs, he said, "Don't do this... To me, just think of me as your dog. Don't leave me, Lingwei."

To her, he was spring after a winter of dead wood, a boat across an impassable river.

Reader's guide:

1. 1v1, both leads are each other's only partners, happy ending.

2. Rival suitors, a ten-year age gap, a difference in build, a caretaker boyfriend, and a powerful man lowering his head for love.

3. The story focuses on the heroine's changing feelings. It's a romance-driven story, and she gets both career and love in the end. What she wants, she gets.

4. Fictional setting with extensive original worldbuilding.

Theme: Love life