Nine Years Later, I Accompany Her Across the Nine Provinces

[Dual heroines + obsessive love + unhinged, uncontrollable imperial heiress vs. silent, frail woman of mysterious identity]

For me, Zhongli Yuan'an, the only thing keeping me alive was the determination to find my missing mother.

I endured the hell of human experimentation and the bitter cold of covert guard training. When I stayed by Xia Baixi, six years my senior, under the guise of her cousin, I thought life might finally grow a little warmer. But her obsessive love shattered that peace. She abducted me to cure her poison, and after I escaped with both body and spirit broken, I thought I had finally found the light, only to fall under her control once more.

Nine years later, Xia Baixi found me. She had shed the domineering ways of the past and now dared only to keep me company in silence, traveling the world with me in an attempt to make amends. But can trust, once shattered, be pieced back together with time?

This is my first time writing, so please be kind and patient with me.