When Gongyi Zhao left the capital, she was a fugitive princess of a fallen kingdom. When she returned, she was Cui Yifeng, the second daughter of the Cui family, raised in the countryside. But she had another identity too: Heng Yu, the most feared assassin in Grieving Wind Valley.
She came back to the capital to earn her freedom by completing one final mission: uncover a secret and destroy the Xie family.
After using every kind of ploy, from seduction to sowing discord, she finally went too far and got herself tangled up in the mess, becoming the wife of His Highness Prince Chen, Xie Wuqi, who was paralyzed and blind. She even ended up owing the capital a mountain of romantic debts. The young heirs of dukes and marquises longed for her and pined for her in vain, but why were the noblewomen of the capital so devoted to her too? Were they really willing to become concubines in Prince Chen’s residence just to see her every day?
Never mind. Xie Wuqi was blind and crippled, so he was easy to fool. She could use him as a tool, and he should be thanking her for it. Heng Yu was quite pleased with how well her mission was going.
Until one day, she angered Xie Wuqi so badly that he stood up, and when she tried to poison him, she accidentally cured his eye condition. Things were getting stranger by the day.
Xie Wuqi pinned her to the bed and asked, “Zhaozhao, do you really not recognize who I am?”
Only then did she realize that Xie Wuqi was none other than the master of Grieving Wind Valley, the man she had longed for all along, and the very person who had saved her life as a child!
After all that careful scheming, it turned out she had been busy staging a grand act of “repaying kindness with betrayal.”
