My Love, You Can't Escape

Qinning and Song Run, the legitimate son of the Minister of Revenue, pledged themselves to each other, but their social standings were worlds apart.

Though she was as beautiful as an immortal, she was merely a household servant and could never become Song Run's principal wife.

By chance, she met Mu Heng, the heir to a prince's title.

Though Mu Heng wielded immense power, he learned that Qinning had no feelings for him and did not force her. He observed the proper decorum and treated her with the utmost care.

He helped her gain her freedom from servitude and find a new father. In the blink of an eye, she became a young lady of a respectable family.

Her adoptive father ordered her not to see men outside the family for five years. So she exchanged letters with Song Run, their affection growing with every message, and waited for the appointed day when he would come for her in a grand bridal sedan.

But the promised sedan never came.

Then one night, she awoke from a dream to find a man sitting in her room.

The noble prince, who had once kept his feelings within the bounds of propriety, slowly forced her toward the depths of her bed curtains. Stroking her frightened, lovely face, he whispered, "What are you afraid of, darling? We've been exchanging letters for years. Surely we're already very familiar with each other?"

Qinning felt as if she had fallen into an icy abyss.

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Mu Heng was born to nobility and bore the weight of imperial ambition. He had never cared for romance.

He fell in love with Qinning at first sight, but even after offering her every possible advantage, he failed to win her heart.

With his departure for the frontier imminent, he devised a series of schemes to make Qinning willingly enter her golden cage. He also forced a wife and a concubine on Song Run, then corresponded with Qinning under Song Run's name, sharing an intimacy of the mind through their letters.

Finger marks were left on her jade-white neck. The waist he caressed trembled, and the woman in his arms sobbed herself unconscious.

He thought she had accepted her fate.

Until he drank the poisoned wine she poured with her own hands and heard her call him "Elder Brother" again and again. Blood surged sweetly in Mu Heng's throat, but he still drank every last drop willingly.

Black blood scorched his robes, blooming into clusters of dark flowers.

He did not fear death. The only thing he hated was that Qinning was the poison coursing through his veins. Though her heart was cold as stone, he still could not let her go.

If she was his wife for one day, she would be his wife for all eternity.

He would never let go.

Theme: True love is precious