A Tender Marriage: The First Wife's Powerful Love

Everyone in Dongcheng knows that the Gu couple are together in name only. Gu Xilie has lovers by the dozen, while men line up to be Song Qingkui's favorites. Their marriage is nothing more than a deal in which each gets what they want. But who could have guessed that years ago, they were childhood sweethearts, deeply in love? At a glamorous social event, they run into each other, each accompanied by a companion. “Mr. Gu, you once knelt in front of me for a whole day and night, begging me not to break up with you. What is it? Is this really the best you can do now?” “Song Qingkui, you took a knife and a bullet for me, nearly losing half your life. You loved me more than life itself. Have you forgotten all that?” Once, their love had been as harmonious as strings and zithers beneath the dusky light. Now time has swept it away, leaving them strangers adrift in a desolate world. As the truth of the past is gradually revealed, can a lost child and severed ties of affection ever mend the rift of all these years? The cruelest thing in the world is when the person who sent you to hell was once the one who took you to heaven. When she screams at him in utter despair, “I don't love you anymore, Gu Xilie. I never want to love you again,” Gu, the feared King of Hell, finally goes mad. He is entirely at her mercy: tormenting her to the extreme, then doting on her beyond measure... Afterword: Years later, someone accidentally opens Gu Xilie's notebook and sees a few lines written inside: At White Dew, the wild geese arrive, and the swallows return south. My Akui, could you come back too, enter my dreams, and look at me just once? That would still be better than my thinking of taking the road to the underworld every day, crossing the Bridge of Helplessness, all for the chance to meet again after all these years. """