Ji Qingyu was once the cherished darling of the Duke of Guo's household, until the true heiress returned and she was discarded like trash.
A glass lamp shattered, and she was framed. The princess flew into a rage, stripped her of her fine clothes, and sent her to the servants' quarters to serve for three years.
The day she returned to the household, her childhood sweetheart, the young marquis, sneered, “A lowly maid like you thinks she can call herself a young lady?”
Her adoptive brother, Ji Hengyuan, gripped her chin and forced her to confess: “Qingyu, you disgust me.”
Later...
The tyrant Qi Yan stormed through the Duke of Guo's gates and carried her, covered in blood, into his imperial carriage.
He gouged out the princess's eyes with his own hands, stripped the heir of his title, and had Ji Shuyi turned into a human pig.
The entire court knelt and begged him for mercy, but he lowered his head and kissed her fingertips. “A Yu, who else owes you their life? I'll go kill them.”
When Ji Hengyuan saw the scars covering her body, he went mad and severed one of his fingers to beg forgiveness. But she only smiled and nestled into the tyrant's arms. “Brother, does it hurt?”
Duan Huaifeng knelt and begged for mercy. She raised a hand and crushed the jade pendant he had given her. “Young Marquis, how does it feel to kneel?”
