Read the Devil's Heart

Ye Zao makes her living as a tea artist. Her father falls seriously ill, and the price of keeping him alive is a marriage she has no say in, to Yan Zhao, the man the capital calls the living King of Hell. Everyone around them expects her to be thrown out within weeks. What none of them know is that she can hear what he is thinking. Behind the face that frightens people she hears tenderness, and she catches every stubborn denial and every possessive thought he will not say aloud. When a local bully goes after her, Yan Zhao knocks him flat with one punch, and when the old family house sides against her he wrecks it. They were married before either of them wanted it, and the fake arrangement turns into something neither will let go of.