【Reborn + redemption + extreme obsession + class contrast + happy ending】
In her previous life, Shen Nanyin was the most exalted legitimate daughter in the Great Ye Dynasty, yet she personally broke the finger bones of Lu Chengxiu, a scholar from a poor family.
She found him gloomy and despised his lowly status, chaining him up like a dog in the Shen family’s back courtyard and letting anyone trample on him.
That was how things remained until the entire Shen family was sentenced to death.
The mad dog Lu Chengxiu, whom she had humiliated, stormed the imperial prison with a bloodstained sword and clung desperately to her broken body.
He sobbed by her ear, his voice hoarse. “Nanyin, I’m here to take you home.”
That night, the powerful chief minister who held sway over the court leapt after her and died in the sea of flames.
When Shen Nanyin opened her eyes again, she had returned to the age of fifteen.
Snow fell thickly outside a damp, moldy woodshed.
The young Lu Chengxiu was curled up in a pile of straw, his back a bloody mess, his eyes as venomous as a snake’s.
He stared at the horsewhip in her hand and sneered. “Miss Shen, haven’t you beaten me enough?”
Shen Nanyin dropped the whip and, to everyone’s astonishment, stumbled into his cold embrace.
She kissed his frozen fingertips, sobbing until her voice gave out.
“Lu Chengxiu, I won’t hit you anymore.”
“This time, I’ll be the one begging you.”
Lu Chengxiu stood rigid, his gaze icy. The shard of porcelain hidden between his fingers nearly cut into his palm.
He wondered what new way of tormenting him Shen Nanyin had come up with this time.
But he didn’t know.
From this moment on, the beast in the abyss would never escape her again.
Even if it meant being shattered to pieces.
