He hurt her, and they both suffered.
She hated him to the core, yet once she was the only light in his life.
What he thought was imprisonment was a trial she had carefully staged.
The ultimate revenge is making you watch helplessly as you destroy everything you hold dear.
Xie Jinyu drew strength from Nie Xi’s pain to reassure himself that he existed, yet their shared empathy made him endure an even more agonizing collapse.
When she calmly hurt herself, he coughed up blood in response. Her bloodstained hand caressed his cheek as she sneered, “I won’t accept your atonement. I’ll make your lonely island burn to ashes for me.”
Her frailty had been a mask all along. Her imprisonment was a feast of mutual destruction.
[Unhinged, empathic, ailing male lead × cool-headed, vengeful female lead | An all-consuming entanglement and destruction]