Xie Yuchen’s Story: Seven Months of Darkness

“The mother dies in childbirth, and the child is stillborn.”

Yet seventeen years later, on an utterly ordinary day, Zhang Qiling felt a sharp pain in his chest and spat out blood.

The daughter he had never had the chance to meet was about to die.

The Black-Gold Ancient Blade began to hum.

(Later, she became the one thing these powerful men would do anything to protect. Zhang Qiling personally taught her, while Hei Xiazi taught her all kinds of tricks for staying alive, including the shady ones. Xie Yuchen taught her how to handle things, make judgments, and tell what was genuine. Wu Xie was relatively gentle. For example, when the men got too rough and hurt the girl, he made sure they took responsibility and patched her up afterward. Wang Pangzi took care of her food and doted on her like she was his own daughter.)

(Xie Yuchen went from being indifferent when they first met to gradually taking the girl under his wing as his responsibility, and then, little by little, developing feelings for her that went beyond that. He began deliberately avoiding her.

Until the Wang family snatched Xiyue and forcibly awakened the Qilin bloodline dormant inside her. When Xiyue was badly wounded, she leaned against his knee in a daze and murmured, “Coward.”)