After Escaping the Mad Minister

● A gentle, clear-eyed beauty x a dark, ruthless madman

● Forced marriage, possessive pursuit, both leads sexually inexperienced

As the only legitimate daughter of the prime minister, Luo Xiaoyu is adored by everyone.

But she falls from being the center of everyone's attention into the dust in an instant. Blood stains her clothes, and her loved ones die before her eyes...

That is the moment she comes to loathe Shi Zhao, a powerful official who holds the highest authority.

She never thought she could hate anyone so much.

But it had to be him.

The young man forces her to watch as crimson blood spreads through the prime minister's residence. He leans close to her ear. A misty blue shade suddenly rises in his eyes, flickering between light and dark. His fingers tremble as they brush the red mole at the corner of her eye. Smiling, he says, "From now on, I'll be the only one in your eyes."

She'd thought she'd raised a tiger that would turn on her, and that she was doomed to die.

But she never expected Shi Zhao to take her back to the Prince Regent's residence and lock her inside the beautiful cage he'd carefully made for her. She has no freedom, and day after day, she is forced to give herself to him...

In just a short time, she loses everything. Yet every night, he gently bites her earlobe, his hoarse voice almost mad. Smiling, he repeats the cruel, absurd words again and again: "A Yu, wouldn't it be better if we were like we used to be?"

How ridiculous.

How could they ever go back to the way they were?

"An uncrossable chasm now lies between us."

When she wakes from her long dream...

Luo Xiaoyu doesn't know how to face him. Those dreams are absurd and terrifyingly real. Whenever she sees him, it feels as if invisible threads have bound her, and for a moment she is back in the dream, her breathing growing labored.

From now on, she will choose, without hesitation, to...

Stay away from him.

"What we had was only a dream, brief and absurd, but it was the only thing I have no regrets about."

"Now that we're awake, we should part."

*

Everyone knows that the Prince Regent, Shi Zhao, wields power over the court and is cold-blooded and ruthless.

No one knows that when Shi Zhao was at his darkest, Luo Xiaoyu led him out of that hellish mire and brought him home.

So he wears a handsome, smiling mask, concealing his filth and malice completely, pretending in front of her.

Even so, the young woman still tries to keep her distance from him, and even wants to marry someone else.

But...

He never intended to let her go.

In the dream, you are mine.

In reality, you won't escape me either.

On the day of Prime Minister's Daughter Luo Xiaoyu's wedding, a river of blood flows.

He gently brushes the red mole at the corner of the young woman's eye and says tenderly, yet cruelly, "How do you like these lives as a wedding gift?"

Reality and the dream nearly become one.

Did she really believe he had a genuine heart?

Of course he would never let her go.

She thought a man who had no heart to begin with would spare her.

She forgot that he was a master of deception.

They have reached a point from which there's no turning back.

Night closes in around them.

Luo Xiaoyu finds a way to escape. Trembling, she gazes at Shi Zhao's figure beneath the moonlight, not far away.

"A Yu, be good and come here..."

*

The moment Shi Zhao becomes the Prince Regent, a powerful official at the very top of the court, Luo Xiaoyu feels both relieved and uneasy.

On their wedding day, when she sees the sea of blood before her, Luo Xiaoyu finally understands how cold-blooded and cruel the young man is.

She tries every possible way to escape him, but never manages to escape his control.

After several failed escape attempts, she returns to the familiar little dark room. She lies dazed on the bed, her last hope destroyed.

The shadow of the nightmare falls over her again. The young man sits on her bed and gently strokes the chain around her ankle.

"Are you going to run again?"

"What punishment would you like this time, A Yu?"

His cool voice carries a trace of chill that inexplicably frightens her. Her shoulders tremble uncontrollably, and she instinctively draws back.

He kisses the red mole at the corner of her eye. Desire roils in his misty blue eyes, and beneath his gentle facade lurks an obsession she cannot escape.

"Are you satisfied now, A Yu? This game of running away should come to an end."

It turns out she has always been under his control.

So she learns to behave, completely putting aside all thoughts of resistance.

Just as Shi Zhao thinks he can have her smiling face forever, as he did before, he receives news of her death.

It turns out love and hate spring from the same root.

Love means losing control, and losing control means love.

But...

I think I've lost you completely.

"We can't go back."

# He is the trial fate set for her, and she is the only one who can save him.

# Know my darkness, and grant me a spring morning.

● Both leads are each other's first and only partners. Happy ending.

● Added 2025/8/4

● An insecure, sensitive, awkward, quiet girl x a roguish, handsome, carefree heir from Beijing's elite circles / groveling pursuit after the breakup, the powerful man lowers his head

● Both leads are each other's first and only partners. The heroine is sensitive and prone to crying. The hero is fiercely possessive and controlling.

Ruan Zhiyi is an ordinary person with an uneventful life. When she first meets Chi Yan on a rainy night, she never imagines they will have anything to do with each other.

But somehow, they end up together. Just as she falls for him, she hears him tell someone else:

"It's just for fun."

Of course it was all fake. How could anyone like her?

She's not exceptionally beautiful, has an ordinary personality, and has no connections. He's an elite from Beijing, and they belong to completely different worlds. Did she really believe he had genuine feelings for her?

She forgot that she would always be the one who got abandoned, the one who was never chosen.

That day, she finds him and calmly says, "Let's break up."

As promised, they have no further contact, and everything goes back to normal.

Until they meet again after graduation. For some reason, he starts getting involved with her again.

One day, he corners her in a conference room. Footsteps outside have yet to fade. His long fingers brush her neck as he says with a smile and a hint of mockery, "Why are you nervous? I'm not going to eat you."

Later, he asks to get back together. She turns him down. "I have only nine words for you."

"Brief, deeply loved, deeply regretted."

"That's all."

If I could, I'd rather never have met you.

*

● Both leads are each other's first and only partners. Happy ending.

● Added 2025/8/20

Conviction: Learn how to love someone.