Spring Prison Terrace

[A crazed, love-starved emperor × a resilient palace maid with a secret bodyguard | A wife-chasing saga | The second male lead's rise to power and a happy ending] On the day Qi Heng ascended the throne, he finally married his long-widowed white moonlight. However, he regarded Sang Yu, who had shared life and death with him, as a shameful trait. So she requested to be deposed and, dragging her crippled body, went to Jiangnan. In the apricot blossoms and light rain, she encountered Li Shiyan. Li Shiyan taught her poetry, coaxed her to sleep, and even reddened his eyes while applying medicine to her. What Sang Yu didn't know was that Li Shiyan had actually been waiting for her for a very long time. But the day after Sang Yu left, the emperor completely lost his mind. —Later, the newly appointed governor of Jiangnan knelt in the imperial study, his spine ramrod straight: "Your subject wants to marry her." Qi Heng's expression remained unchanged, but he crushed the ring in his hand. He had seen Sang Yu trembling in pain from her wounds, but he had never seen her so vibrant. —Wearing an apricot-red ruqun (a type of traditional Chinese dress), she tiptoed to brush fallen petals from someone's shoulder. Qi Heng wrecked half the palace, finally bursting into the bridal chamber with bloodshot eyes: "You'd rather have a useless scholar than me?" Sang Yu looked at him coldly, correcting him: "No, you were the one who rejected me first." [Reading Guide] Female not male CP (Second Male Lead) / The female lead is initially battered and bruised, later healed by the second male lead. The male lead is crazed and obsessive, pursuing his wife relentlessly until death; the second male lead is gentle and steadfast. Contains / Forced love / Political intrigue and abusive romance.