The Regent's Embrace

After the fall of the Great Liang, Princess Jiang Wan becomes a prisoner of the powerful Nine Thousand Years old, Pei Ji. Pretending to submit, she plays along while he obsessively claims her, leading to a tangled relationship built on mutual exploitation and testing, further deepened by a heart-linking charm. Although Pei Ji holds supreme power and eventually falls in love with her, helping her eliminate enemies and depose a puppet emperor, even offering his kingdom as a dowry, Jiang Wan's resolve to avenge her people never wavers. On their wedding night, she stabs him in the heart and leaves amidst the flames. This game of hatred ends with both the obsessive lover and the prisoner suffering heavy losses.