[A pure historical romance featuring a coercive male lead who is immoral yet devoted, groveling for forgiveness, and angst with a bit of sweetness.] (Possessive! Goes crazy with jealousy! Both leads are clean! A seemingly gentle but actually dark and yandere powerful official vs. a resilient and calculating delicate flower.)
Jiang Yu married the Grand Secretary, a man with a disposition as gentle as jade.
He cooked for her and styled her hair in the mirror. Because of her frail health, he was never seen without a string of White Jade Bodhi Beads in his hand.
The world praised him as a sacred Buddhist Disciple who had descended into the mortal realm.
It wasn’t until Jiang Yu peeked into the Buddhist hall and saw him wrap the Jade Bodhi Beads around another’s neck, strangling them to death with cold indifference, that she realized his feigned gentleness was nothing but a Golden Cage he had woven to trap her.
Pei Xiao was a maggot writhing in a dark corner. To him, marriage and human life were merely bargaining chips in his struggle for power.
But through nights of tender affection, he gradually lost himself to her repeated calls of “Husband.”
Later, he wanted only her… Even knowing it was morally and ethically wrong, even knowing she was destroying him, he wanted only her
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