She is the beloved jewel of the wealthiest family, compassionate and kindhearted, yet the “younger sister” she trusts most skins her alive and tears out her sinews, leaving her family destroyed.
In her final moments, she watches her adopted sister wear her jewelry and cling to the fiance she was supposed to marry for an alliance, smiling with the benevolence of a bodhisattva.
When she opens her eyes again, she is back at her twentieth birthday banquet, three days after her adopted sister was brought home.
The prayer beads are still between her fingers, but now the flames of a demon burn in her eyes.
She will make the poisonous flower that bloomed by feeding on her family’s flesh and blood rot back into the dirt, inch by inch.
She will also make the fiance who was blind and foolish in her previous life kneel and watch her put on the true crown.
And the man standing at the very top of the pyramid, the one she had only dared look up to in her previous life, the head of the Fu family, offers her a blade at the very first step of her revenge this time around:
“Miss Wen, it’s a pleasure doing business with you.”
“On one condition: once you’ve done everything you want to do, give yourself back to me, whole.”
