The Darling in My Palm

(Forced Possession × The Husband’s Long Road to Winning Her Back × One-Sided Happy Ending for the Female Lead) Silks swayed and rustled, a subtle fragrance drifted through the air. Afterward, he gently brushed her damp temple. “As you wished, you can never leave me now, can you?” Literary version: They say the fifth son of the Gu family was hopelessly devoted: through countless nights of passion, he won remarkable military honors and defied all convention, overruling the objections of everyone around him, all for the daughter of a disgraced minister, newly widowed by his sworn enemy. He let her marry in white and built her a gilded cage. Though he wielded power over all, he became a servant beneath the skirts of that fallen woman. They also say she was wicked indeed, spending her whole life keeping that fine young man wrapped around her little finger. Those who know the truth might sigh: every fruit has its cause. If only he had shown her even a shred of kindness back then, things might not have ended this way. And then they sigh again: what people call devotion is always just a way of moving oneself.