The Imprisoned Imperial Sister

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Wei Shu was the one variable he miscalculated on his path to imperial power.

He was the Great Jing's most calculating crown prince, advancing step by step with every move planned.

When Cui Congyu brought her into the palace, everyone praised the crown prince's benevolence for taking in the orphaned daughter of a general who had died in battle.

Only he knew what a masterful move it was.

He would use her innocence to showcase the royal family's "kindness" and whitewash the hypocrisy of the entire dynasty.

"Your Imperial Brother treats you best."

Wei Shu believed him.

Having lost her memories, she was like a blank sheet of paper. At night, she would fall asleep without a care in his study, resting her head on his knee. At palace banquets, she would get drunk and curl up in his arms, blinking as she asked in a soft voice, "Will you stay with me forever, Imperial Brother?"

He watched coldly, enjoying her complete dependence on him, as if taming a little bird he had chosen himself.

Until that night, when moonlight filled the courtyard.

She suddenly tugged at his sleeve and looked up, her eyes utterly innocent. "Imperial Brother, they say... I'm going to get married soon."

"When you get married, does that mean spending the rest of your life with just one person and never being apart?"

She paused, her voice as light as a butterfly's wings. "Then... can I marry Lin Lang?"

The white jade hairpin he had been using to fix her hair snapped in his palm without warning.

Blood dripped through the gaps between his fingers, but he felt no pain.

It turned out that the little bird he had tamed with his own hands had silently pecked through his heart long ago.

Later, her memories came flooding back.

The blood in the general's mansion, the brutal deaths of her parents, and his terrifyingly composed face in the firelight...

"Imperial Brother, let me go."

For the first time, she looked at him with fear.

But he only smiled, wiped away her tears, and fastened a gold chain around her ankle.

"Shu'er, you should have understood when you were sixteen."

"From the day you entered the Eastern Palace, I was the only one you could spend the rest of your life with."

"You promised to stay by my side forever."

He imprisoned her in the palace, keeping her from all contact with other people.

The court officials condemned him as immoral, and the entire realm called him mad.

But late at night, he gripped her chin, his eyes bloodshot with obsession.

"Tell me, who do you want to marry now?"

She trembled and said nothing.

He chuckled and kissed away the tears at the corner of her eye.

"Be good. Say, 'I will marry only my Imperial Brother.'"

An innocent, guileless princess x a scheming, black-hearted crown prince

| He calculated everything in the world, but failed to account for falling in love.

| "The cage I wove for you with my own hands is not yours to escape at will."

Reading Guide:

1. The male and female leads are not related by blood. Everyone except the female lead herself knows from the beginning that they are not truly siblings, and this will be repeatedly mentioned in the story.

2. The story includes coercive possession. The male lead initially uses the female lead, but later becomes an obsessive, corrupted yandere with overwhelming possessiveness and need for control. He cannot bear to be apart from her at all.

3. At first, the female lead has poor boundaries because she has lost her memory, and she relies heavily on the male lead. There will be lots of intimate contact.

4. One couple, both each other's first and only, happy ending. There is no romance while they are considered siblings; their romantic relationship begins only after that relationship has ended. The entire plot serves the romance between the leads.

5. In this story, adulthood is reached at eighteen.

6. This is a fictional setting with a mishmash of dynasties.

Blurb written on December 15, 2025, revised on February 6, 2026, and archived as proof of authorship.

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Blurb

Shen Jue, the legitimate son of the Shen family, was raised among the great clans. He studied under renowned masters, took up an important post at court at a young age, and had a promising career already laid out for him by his clan.

Everyone said Shen Jue was like snow on a lofty peak: aloof, cold, and untouched by the mundane world.

Only he knew that a beast dwelled in his heart, hidden from the light.

His elder brother died suddenly, leaving behind a widowed sister-in-law as frail as a willow, who lowered her eyes and meekly endured others' abuse.

Shen Jue stood before the mourning hall, incense in hand, watching her kneel beside the coffin in her white mourning clothes, like a fragile porcelain doll.

He suddenly remembered.

A year ago, on the wedding night of that same elder brother, perhaps because the maids and matrons were unfamiliar with the Shen household, the bride who should have been in his brother's room somehow ended up outside Shen Jue's courtyard.

Her eyes peered at him timidly from behind her fan.

Now, his brother's coffin had not yet been buried.

The clan elders were already discussing what to do with her, speaking carelessly of her as a possession they could dispose of at will.

Shen Jue sat among them with his eyes lowered, saying nothing as he watched coldly.

In the end, his widowed sister-in-law left with a divorce agreement in hand.

Just as everyone was about to forget that a concubine's wife had once lived in the household, Li Baozhu returned unexpectedly.

As Shen Jue's fiancee.

The hall fell into complete silence.

He faced the shocked gazes of everyone there and walked toward her one step at a time. Bending down, he whispered in a voice only the two of them could hear:

"Sister-in-law," he said with a smile devoid of warmth, "this time, the bridal sedan will be carried to the right place."

Theme: Love is boundless, powerful enough to break every shackle.