Jian Ximan never imagined she’d end up in Fu Li’s hands.
Forced into a substitute marriage, she saved his life on their wedding night. She thought she was securing a way out for herself, never realizing she’d just stepped into an abyss.
Fu Li kept saying he loved her, yet he held her reputation and social standing, the things she cared about most, in his grasp and crushed them bit by bit.
Later, Jian Ximan defied convention and broke her proud spirit, becoming Fu Li’s caged songbird, the very kind of person she had once despised most.
But even the hardest heart is still made of flesh and blood.
Fu Li thought Jian Ximan loved him to the core and would never betray him, no matter what...
Until years later, he saw his woman at the wedding of his sworn enemy, dressed in a wedding gown and smiling, radiant as a star-cut diamond.
Fu Li lost control. Reenacting their wedding night, he stormed into the bridal chamber and pinned Jian Ximan beneath him once more. “You want to marry someone else? Did I give you permission?”
