After My Underworld Girlfriend Locked Me in a Water Prison, I Gave Up on Her

My queen of the underworld girlfriend fell for the young son of her enemy, the latest hostage she’d taken. Fu Qinglou’s stubborn refusal to yield, even at the cost of his life, made her unable to resist him. The eighteenth time I brought her foot-washing water at the wrong temperature, Zhao Huanru kicked me to the floor. Ignoring the two bloodied teeth I spat out, she ordered her men to drag me to the water prison. "I can’t stand that fawning look of yours! You’re a man with no backbone. You’re not fit to hold a candle to Qinglou!" "Get to the water prison and toughen up. You can come out when you learn to act like a man." Zhao Huanru had forgotten. Seven years ago, I had been a man of iron and steel, too. She had kidnapped my sister and parents, using my whole family’s lives to threaten me and force me to submit to her. Over the seven years we spent together, I gradually fell in love with her strong, unyielding nature and the girlish vulnerability she sometimes let show. She had trained me into a fiercely loyal dog, then hated me for losing the strength to bite her. Zhao Huanru still didn’t know. The young son of her enemy, the one she doted on, wanted her dead. I had risked everything to uncover evidence that Fu Qinglou was plotting a rebellion, but she dismissed it as an attempt to win her favor and punished me severely. Then, on the day her enemy stormed our stronghold, I dragged my battered body in front of her and took the fatal bullet for her. At last, Zhao Huanru came to her senses. She had been wrong.