The day my family was seized, I was forced to wander the streets.
My childhood friend pinned me down on the bed and coaxed me softly: "Be good. Just become the top courtesan, and I'll marry you."
I cast aside every shred of dignity and shame, showing off my slender waist and charming face in front of men.
I let their laughter and humiliation trample my pride into the mud.
But after I became the top courtesan, my childhood friend declared in public that Liu Zhirui was the one in his heart.
As for me, his moonlight, I was already ruined beyond repair, unworthy of the status of the son of the richest man in Jiangnan.
Just as I became the laughingstock of the entire city,
my childhood friend's aloof, otherworldly older brother took off his cloak, lifted me into his arms, and promised me happiness for the rest of my life.
After we married, he cherished me like a treasure, but in three years of marriage, I never conceived.
So I climbed all nine thousand steps to pray to Buddha, wanting only to bear him a child.
Then I accidentally overheard his conversation with the steward:
"Master, if Madam keeps drinking this contraceptive soup, she may never be able to conceive!"
Sheng Zhiyuan replied indifferently:
"Back then, I had no choice but to marry Le Yao so Ruirui could marry the man she loved."
"Only Ruirui can bear the Sheng family's heirs!"
To prevent any accidents, he even plotted to have bandits abduct me, intending for them to ravage me until I could never bear children.
With nowhere left to turn, I leaped off a cliff without hesitation.
But he and my childhood friend both went mad.
