[Mutual exploitation + clear-eyed surrender + sweet on the outside, dark within * mad, ruthless power broker + equally strong leads + both leads are each other’s first]
“What you think is your rebirth and revenge is only the first move in someone else’s game.”
Xue Se has died three times.
The first time, she was pushed into an icy lake.
The second time, she was poisoned with a cup of wine.
When she awakens in her third life, she carefully engineers a scandal at Xiangji Temple, ruining her enemies’ reputations.
Just as she thinks she has finally avenged herself, Liang Heng, deputy commissioner of the Inspectorate, drags her into a secret prison.
The bright charcoal fire illuminates his faintly smiling face:
“Attempted murder is punishable by forty strokes and three years of penal servitude.”
“Or,” he leans closer, his breath brushing her ear, “you can be mine.”
From then on, a sheltered young lady becomes the most dangerous variable in a game of power.
She wants to use his influence to burn away her past.
He wants to temper a new blade with her bones.
In this game, who is truly pulling the strings?
A noblewoman is reborn and uses a mad, ruthless power broker to catch her cheating lover, ruining her soft-hearted ex-husband and her scheming cousin. Then she is maneuvered into marrying the power broker, and they love and hate each other as she surrenders to him with her eyes wide open.
