Xu Huanyi, the youngest daughter of the Xu family, could have grown up as carefree and joyful as her parents hoped. But a maid’s deliberate act of revenge separated her from her parents and older sister for more than a decade. Her sister was left with a chronic illness after saving her, and the doctors said she wouldn’t live to see twenty-five.
At fifteen, Xu Huanyi was on the brink of death when Shen Yize took her home. She was tiny and frail, cautious around everyone. Shen Yize cared for her devotedly for three years, and during that time Xu Huanyi gradually fell in love with him. She thought he felt the same way, until the banquet where she saw him taking such tender care of Xu Wuyou and saw the way he looked at her. That was when Xu Huanyi realized he had always loved someone else. It was also at that banquet that she returned to the Xu family.
After fourteen years apart from her family, she felt like an outsider when she returned, unable to fit in no matter how hard she tried. Even after two years together, she still felt like a stranger, no matter how well her parents treated her.
When the maid from years ago saw Xu Huanyi back with the Xu family, she plotted to kill her once more. And because of that plot, Xu Huanyi’s life ended at twenty.
[No twists, no getting back together after a breakup. Pure angst, bad ending, searching for sweetness among shards of glass.]
(Enter at your own risk if this bothers you.)
