Jiang Lan was a "vicious dog" the young Master Lu had brought home to the military compound.
If he pointed east, she never went west. When his business was just starting out and his rivals came to cause trouble, Jiang Lan took an iron rod and single-handedly knocked down more than a dozen of their men.
When he was eighteen, someone set him up and held him at a mine. Jiang Lan stormed in and carried him out, fighting for her life.
She broke two ribs herself, and a scar deep enough to show bone still marked her lower back.
After that, Lu Zhiyuan treated her better and better.
After his relationship with his family completely broke down, he held her hand beneath the dim yellow light and promised,
"Xiaolan, once I've secured my footing, I'll marry you in style."
At night, he would trace each of the gruesome scars on her body, his voice hoarse,
"My Xiaolan is the purest. You belong to me. Promise me you'll never leave me in this life."
She had once believed in his love without a doubt.
Until she saw the wedding characters pasted up at the entrance to the Lu family home.
