The Lime Tower Has No Heart

[Forbidden-but-not-really romance + premium novel + mature man and woman + intense push and pull + female growth + neither is pure]

“Go on, scream. You're just a plaything I paid for to amuse myself. Let's see how long you can keep that mouth shut. Even that mute who can't speak is more interesting than your dead face...”

The little whip in Fu Yulin's hand lashed like a savage serpent.

It tore viciously at Song Qingning's thin clothes and flesh.

With each piercing crack through the air, it left behind a series of ghastly bloody welts.

The foul words spilling from his mouth were like poisoned knives, stabbing into her heart one by one.

Song Qingning pressed her lips tightly together, as if she might bite them until they bled. Yet she refused to utter a single plea for mercy.

Like a stone statue weathered by the wind, she silently endured the torture. Ever since the Yang family had forced her to marry Fu Yulin,

her year of married life had been one endless hell.

Song Qingning swore furiously in her heart: “If you give me even the slightest chance to survive, I will repay every humiliation I've suffered today a hundredfold, a thousandfold!”