I Adopted My Enemy's Son

[Revenge + older love interest + mutual salvation + winning her back]

As the daughter of a renowned swordsman, Chu Chu could have grown up pampered and adored. But after her father put his trust in a friend, her entire family was killed overnight. Her enemy locked her away in a dark chamber and kept her as a captive concubine, torturing her for three years. She finally found a chance to escape on a snowy night.

Amid the bitter cold and snow, she thought she would freeze to death, but just as she was dying, she encountered that aloof, otherworldly, jade-faced god of slaughter.

From then on, he kept her by his side for ten years, cherishing and caring for her...

To avenge her family, she killed her enemy. Yet for some reason, she adopted the enemy’s son and raised the boy by her side, cherishing and caring for him.

The fates of the three began to intertwine and turn together...

What she thought was Heaven’s mercy, their meeting in the snow, was actually the result of years of tireless searching on his part.

(Content warning: The narration changes perspective. The first half is in first person, before Chapter 36, and the second half is in third person.)

P.S. The male and female leads are ten years apart.

“As long as you’re alive, that’s all that matters.”

“People have to learn to be selfish, to put themselves first. Always thinking of others isn’t kindness, it’s stupidity.”

“I’ve told you more than once: don’t be trapped in the past, and don’t burden yourself with hardship. Why do you never listen? You let the past make you feel inferior and afraid today, and tomorrow others will use it to humiliate you.”