Important announcement, repeated three times: the second male lead gets the girl, and things end badly with the male lead. I recommend going straight to the ending. Until we meet again!
When Xi Zui was fifteen, she was about to be sold to a brothel. In desperation, she called for help from Xiao Xi, who was passing by in a carriage. Xiao Xi rescued her.
Xiao Xi never cared about her lowly status. Instead, he treated her with kindness at every turn. “A Zui, because of your... status, the Empress Dowager will only allow me to make you a concubine. Are you willing to put up with that for my sake? Can you trust me when I say I'll make you my principal wife one day?”
Xi Zui understood then: love begins without warning, and once it takes hold, it runs deep. Her face instantly turned scarlet. “Your Highness, you saved my life and never looked down on me. I... of course I'm willing!”
Just as Xi Zui thought she had escaped her misery and could spend the rest of her life in happiness, a princess from a foreign land suddenly arrived at Prince Heng's residence, and Xi Zui found herself stepping into another kind of hell.
It was like someone who had endured countless hardships finally seeing a ray of light. Just when she thought she had grasped it tightly, her wings were torn off and she fell into the mud.
Xi Zui once said: “My life has been just like my name, Xi Zui, shattered into pieces. I only think of drinking, and wait to be drunk forever, as if in a song. In the end, I still lost to love.”
