The Bitter Winter Thaws

Shi Yu never imagined she’d end up falling into Gu Yan’s hands. He was violent and extreme, often lurking in the darkness and gazing into the abyss. For the first seventeen years of her life, Shi Yu had lived in luxury, held high on a pedestal by everyone around her. Then she came to Songrong, a small county town where everything was shabby and rotten, and the sky was always gray. It was like the sky when she was dragged into a restroom to be bullied, or humiliated in a little alley: stifling and hot, with a sparse drizzle that offered no relief. So when Gu Yan appeared, he became her gamble, and her last lifeline...