Ye Zhao is the fake daughter who was switched at birth.
In her previous life, after the real daughter came back, Ye Zhao was toyed with, tricked, tormented, punished, and humiliated.
She was disfigured and crippled, and everything was taken from her.
Her fiancé, her career, everything she had...
She thought she owed the real daughter, but only learned the truth as she lay dying: the mix-up at birth had been part of a conspiracy.
Reborn, Ye Zhao returns to the time before the tragedy began.
She sets her sights on the one person in the capital’s elite circles whom everyone treats as a taboo subject, avoids discussing, and wouldn’t dare provoke.
The capital’s holy man, Huo Tingxi.
Everyone says Huo Tingxi wields immense power and enjoys unrivaled influence, yet wants nothing and lives an austere, ascetic life.
But Ye Zhao knows that isn’t true.
His supposed retreat to a mountain to meditate and cultivate is just a way of keeping him in check.
Keeping the most terrifying, violent side of him under control.
Ye Zhao is determined to become the temptress who hones him into a sharp blade and has him personally kill her enemies.
Later, that blade hides all its sharp edges, drops to one knee, and begs her earnestly.
“Zhaozhao, have I done well?”
“Could I ask you to take pity on me and give me a little genuine affection?”
