The Madam Is Blessed with a Heir, and the Cold, Powerful Minister Is Obsessed with Claiming Her

[A Self-Effacing, Insensitive Doctor × A Handsome, Brilliant, Wretched, Scheming Grand Tutor] [A Love Triangle, Rivals Fighting for Her, Lies and Sweet Talk, A Groveling Chase]

Su Miaoshan, a village doctor, became the young mistress of the Minister of Revenue's household and was about to be adopted as the Empress Dowager's daughter. She seemed destined for wealth and power, but who could have guessed she was merely an exchange "gift," doomed to have her skin flayed and her muscles torn out?

If she wanted to stay alive and get a divorce, she had only one path left: attach herself to and seduce the Empress Dowager's younger brother, Cui Qi, the Grand Tutor of the court. Even if he was old, fat, and ugly, she would just have to hold her nose and accept it!

But one late night, the mysterious guard whose life she had saved at the Cui family's country estate pinned her to the bed and reached for the buttons of her clothes. "The heat poison is hard to cure. Young Madam Lu is kindhearted. Please be generous and give me another dose of medicine."

She reached out and pulled off his mask. The man who had once made her heart ache and flutter had the most handsome face in the world.

Her voice trembled. "Grand Tutor, was it fun to deceive an ignorant woman like me for so long?"

Cui Qi pressed his forehead to hers and gave a hoarse, low laugh. "You said you would seduce me, so see it through to the end... You'll never escape me in this lifetime."

Su Miaoshan was a married woman. Cui Qi had only meant to amuse himself: coax her into giving him her body, deceive her into giving him her heart, keep her under his thumb, and fight off anyone who tried to take her away, all while being unable to give her a place at his side.

But when she turned to leave, he plunged a knife into his own chest and asked with a smile, "Since you want to leave, shall I pave you a broad road to the future with my blood?"

In the eyes of the world, he was aloof and handsome, far above everyone else. In Su Miaoshan's eyes, he was grasping for sympathy, ruthless and heartless.

But neither of those men... was the real him.