Taming the Beguiling Luan: She Fled in Secret, Only to Be Seized by the Regent!

[Reunion after a long separation + rekindled romance + emotional tug-of-war + possessiveness + mutual chastity] Down-on-her-luck noblewoman VS scheming regent The one in the weaker position trains the other like a dog VS the one in power bows his head Li Luan abandoned Wei Zhao when he was at his lowest and entered the palace as a consort, enjoying boundless glory for a time. Later, Wei Zhao returned to the capital, married into the Qiao family, entered the cabinet, colluded with rebels, and ruled the empire as regent. On the day the palace fell, she begged for death in a wretched state, but he saved her. She became Wei Zhao's kept woman, hidden from the world. Li Luan never expected Wei Zhao to still have feelings for her, but when she heard him tell a friend that she was “nothing but a plaything,” her heart still felt as if it had been cut to pieces. - But Li Luan didn't know. He raised their child alone, and countless times at the bedside he held up her portrait and told the child, “This is your mother.” He had plotted every step of the way to seize the empire, all for a despicable purpose he couldn't reveal. Everyone laughed at her as a faded beauty, once a consort to the old emperor and now the regent's kept woman. They said no one would want her even if she married a butcher for the second time. But when the day came for her to marry again, Wei Zhao went mad. He threatened, bribed, forced himself on her, and shamelessly refused to let go. “Wei Zhao, I'm already married.” “So what?” He backed her into a corner and kissed her fiercely. “I can be your kept man. I can make you feel even better.”