Half a Life of Cold Indifference, Half a Life of Heartbreak

"Before the incident, your elder sister had already married into the Qu family. She was a properly wedded young madam."

Su Hua's eyes turned icy. She stared straight down at the tea in her hands, and it was a long while before she managed to speak. "You married her. You really did marry her..."

"Fu'er..."

"Don't call me that." Su Hua lifted her face, the faintest smile playing at her lips. She nodded to herself. "I knew you'd marry her. From the moment you used her medical texts to teach me to read, from the moment you willingly led her horse, from the moment you gave her date-paste pastries, from the moment you scolded me for burning the love letter she wrote you, from the moment you comforted her by saying a legitimate daughter was no more noble than a concubine's daughter. Of course I knew you'd marry her."

"Fu'er, listen to me..."

"I'm not Fu'er!" Su Hua stood up, and the teacup in her hand shattered on the floor. Her gaze was sorrowful yet cold. "I'm the replacement you went to so much trouble to find, the concubine you schemed to bring into your household, the Su Hua whose name you painstakingly stole! Qu Jinkuang, you plotted to take my past and steal my name. For her sake, you turned me into someone even more lowly than a concubine's daughter..."

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.