My Husband Is The Sweetest In The World
Qi Cunxin was only a fire-tending maid in the Eastern Ling residence.
Day after day, she crouched by the smoky stove, her face and hands covered in ash. Life was dull, money was always tight, and the little copper coins she earned never seemed enough.
To survive, she secretly worked outside, washing clothes for courtesans at the pleasure house. It was exhausting work, but it gave her a few extra coins to hide away.
Then one day, her life changed.
In the back courtyard of the flower house, she saw him.
A beautiful young man locked in an iron cage. His face was pale, his breath weak, his life hanging by a thread. The madam who had bought him already despised him, calling him useless and a waste of money.
Qi Cunxin was sitting on a stool, scrubbing clothes. When she lifted her head, her eyes met his. His gaze was so bright and beautiful that she forgot to breathe.
That day, she emptied the little silver she had saved for so long. She bought him, and carried him back to the residence.
From then on, he became hers.
He was quiet, gentle, always following her like a shadow. He smiled sweetly, clung to her with every step, and looked at her as though she was his entire world. More than that, he was impossibly handsome. Qi Cunxin swore that one day, when she was free, she would marry him.
But she never guessed the truth.
Xie Miao once thought the most exciting thing in life was watching people's final struggles before death, or stepping on them with power. Until he met her.
For the first time, he wanted to pretend: to act pure and flawless, like snow in spring or willows in the wind. At first, it was just a game: to toy with her innocent heart.
Yet in the end, the one who was captured... was him.
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ML: Cold and ruthless in public, but in private a spoiled, clingy and obedient. (Obsessed and possessive)
FL: Kind and adorable.
