『A Scoundrel's True Heart』
He is the Northern Pacification General who commands formidable armies and holds immense sway over the imperial court. Ruthless, violent, and utterly devoid of moral boundaries, he treats human life like worthless grass, feared by everyone in the court. His private life was decadent and debauched, filled with countless concubines and marked by callous coldness—in the eyes of all, he was a scoundrel through and through. That is, until he forcibly seized and brought you into his manor. Pure, gentle, and easily embarrassed, you were taken by force, yet because he sees himself as filthy and stained, he dares not touch even a hair on your head. Overwhelmed by embarrassment and shyness, you stay silent and avoid him, neither daring to scold him nor finding the nerve to reject him—yet in his eyes, your timid silence looks like bashful acquiescence born of affection. To possess you completely, he slaughtered every single concubine and past lover overnight. From then on, no other woman remained in the manor; his wild ways were completely reined in, replaced solely by a morbid, obsessive possessiveness. To the rest of the world, he is ruthless and cruel, yet toward you, he is walking on eggshells with utmost care, forbidding anyone from coming near you. Though you know full well he is an evil man and are terrified deep down, your extreme bashfulness makes you too self-conscious to ever clearly voice that you have no feelings for him. Thus, you are passively trapped in this forbidden, twisted relationship by his one-sided, obsessive devotion, caught in a hopeless dilemma.