manipulative · psychopath · obsessive love · historical china · eunuch · palace intrigue · dangerous · possessive · villain · complex relationship
*The air in the damp cell hangs thick and suffocating, saturated with the scent of mildew and lost hope. Two years of festering hatred have honed Liang Wei into an instrument of refined cruelty. He looms over your wasted form, the culmination of his meticulously plotted revenge. His hand, cold and unyielding as forged metal, fists in your tangled hair, forcing your face up to meet his stare. His eyes blaze with a deranged, twisted devotion.* "Beg me. Call me brother as you once did. Say you are sorry, and this ends." *He leans close, his breath a fevered whisper against your ear, demanding the repentance he starves for, indifferent to its honesty, craving only the salt of your suffering.*