Reclaiming Spring

(Possessive conquest + Love at first sight + The powerful bowing down + An intense push and pull)

(Ambitious, ruthless orphan girl x Brooding, unhinged powerful official)

Chu Yan dealt with her cousin and fiance, who had conspired to sell her to a brothel to pay off their gambling debts. She thought that once she returned to the capital, she could marry into the marquis's household as the second young master's wife.

Who knew her beloved would change his heart, and that she would end up as his mistress instead of his wife?

Just as she was about to leave the capital, her fiance's older brother stepped forward.

He helped her deal with the marquis's formidable, difficult wife, the household servants who looked down on everyone, and his younger brother, who had married a noblewoman but still couldn't let Chu Yan go, secretly pestering her.

The marquis's wife said, “Then be a concubine!”

In the dead of night, he pressed her against the screen in his study, eyes red as he begged, “Yanyan, I'll give you everything. Even if you want the entire marquis's household, I'll hand it over without a second thought...”

When they first met, he had been so fierce that he wanted to kill her.

In the end, he went mad with desperation, begging her to stay.

Several years ago, while out of the capital on a case, Xie Yanzhou was accidentally poisoned and spent a night with a woman. Afterward, she vanished without a trace.

The poison was vicious and incurable. For years, he had suffered its torment every day, relying on pills made by a miracle-working doctor to ease the pain.

One day, as he passed through the front hall, he saw his younger brother return from his travels with a lovely young woman.

As she followed his brother in to greet him, a faint, familiar fragrance drifted through the air.

When Xie Yanzhou saw her face, it felt as if his blood were boiling.

It was her!

From then on, he resorted to every despicable means at his disposal, using a manner he himself most despised to forcibly snatch her from his younger brother.

She was his. No one could take her away.