My husband’s moonlight, Jiang Yueyue, let the circus lion escape. The ringmaster flew into a rage and threatened to turn her into a handless monkey.
That night, Gu Yanci came to my room and strapped a red-hot iron mask onto my face.
“Wanxi, you’re a member of the Butterfly Clan. Any injuries you suffer before you emerge from your cocoon can heal.”
“Yueyue is just an ordinary person. Take her punishment for her!”
“Just one year. I promise I’ll bring you back.”
But Gu Yanci didn’t know that I’d already cut off the wing buds I needed to become a butterfly, ground them into powder, and used them as medicine to cure his terminal illness.
I was bound and taken to the circus, where I endured inhuman abuse.
As the year drew to a close, Gu Yanci was at an auction, bidding an astronomical price for the ruby necklace Jiang Yueyue wanted and keeping the bidding alive by flashing his bidding card.
He had no idea that the showpiece up for auction was a specimen of me in my cocoon.
It wasn’t until the auctioneer proudly announced,
“Our showpiece is a Butterfly Clan member in her cocoon!”
“What makes her truly rare is that this female Butterfly Clan member was pregnant before she entered her cocoon. Though she’ll never emerge, this one-of-a-kind specimen contains two lives!”
When Gu Yanci saw the two hearts, one large and one small, beating inside the enormous cocoon-shaped specimen,
he completely lost his mind.
