While others transmigrate and become princess consorts or princesses, Lin Xingyue becomes an orphaned farm girl with nothing to her name.
Fortunately, she knows how to make hotpot, enough to scrape by.
She also has a handsome young man covered in injuries by her side.
His lashes are damp as he tugs on her sleeve. “Big Sister, you’re all I have.”
Her heart softens, and from then on, she has a clingy little “puppy” at her heels.
He chops wood and starts fires for her, learns to fry hotpot seasoning until his fingertips turn red, and quietly stands in front of her when someone bullies her.
Until one day, she discovers the young man’s identity.
“The Regent King!”
She turns around and sees him wipe the blood from his fingertips. When he looks up, his gaze is as cold and sharp as a blade.
He’s nothing like the little puppy she raised.
Later, rumors spread through the capital that the ruthless, bloodthirsty Regent King has carved out a vegetable patch in his residence and planted chilies with his own hands.
Someone mocks him for being absurd. Smiling, he crushes the man’s throat bone.
“My big sister likes them.”
Later still, his eyes red, he pins her against the palace gates, his voice hoarse.
“You picked me up, Big Sister. You’re not getting away from me for the rest of your life.”
But she smiles and presses a divorce agreement against his chest.
“Your Highness, a farm girl like me isn’t fit for a phoenix crown. I’m only fit to fly far away.”
That night, the Regent King razes three bandit strongholds, all to find the wisp of cooking smoke that once warmed his cold nights.
[Little puppy turns into a deranged Regent King x clear-headed, decisive transmigrated woman]
He thought he could scheme against the whole world, but he never counted on losing his heart.
She thought she could leave without a backward glance, not knowing he had already carved her into his very bones and blood.
A deadly game of her running and him chasing, with a lifetime of devotion at stake.
