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

[A Self-Effacing, Insecure Healer x A Handsome, Brilliant, Tragic, Scheming Grand Tutor] [Threesome for Love / Fighting to Claim Her, Coaxing and Deceiving / The Long Road to Winning Back His Wife]

Su Miaoshan was a village healer who became the young madam of the Minister of Revenue's household. She was about to be adopted as the Empress Dowager's sworn daughter. It all looked like unimaginable wealth and glory, but who could have guessed she was merely an exchange "gift," destined to have her skin flayed and her tendons torn out?

If she wanted to live and obtain 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 though she thought he was old, fat, and ugly, she would just have to hold her nose and accept it!

But one late night, the mysterious guard at the Cui family's estate, whose life she had once saved, pinned her to the bed and touched the fastenings of her clothes. "The heat poison is hard to dispel. Young Madam Lu is kindhearted, so please generously give me another dose of medicine."

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

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

Cui Qi pressed his forehead against hers and chuckled hoarsely. "You said you would seduce me, so see it through to the end... You can forget about escaping me in this lifetime."

Su Miaoshan was a married woman. Cui Qi had meant to amuse himself, indulging her body, deceiving her heart, keeping her in his grasp and refusing to let her go, while still being unable to give her a proper title.

But as she turned to leave, he plunged a knife into his own chest and smiled as he asked, "Since you want to go, how about I use my blood to pave you a broad road to freedom?"

In the eyes of the world, he was aloof and handsome, high above everyone else. In Su Miaoshan's eyes, he was fishing for sympathy, cruel and heartless.

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