Su Jin transmigrated into the body of an ugly farm girl. The birthmark on her face was so frightening it made children cry, and the villagers all called her a jinx.
Her gambling-addicted uncle had piled up debts and wanted to sell her seven-year-old sister to pay them off. Her grandmother threw herself on the ground, pointing at her mother and calling her barren, insisting that all five members of their family were slaves born to serve the prized grandson.
Su Jin smiled.
In her previous life, she was a sanda champion. In this one, all she wanted was to live a quiet, peaceful life. Since keeping her head down wouldn't bring her peace, they couldn't blame her for fighting back.
The gambling house's thugs came to snatch her sister? She beat three of them single-handedly. Her grandmother came to cause trouble? She had her sister bring out the dung bucket and splashed the old woman until she was rolling on the ground. A family division? She made sure the land deeds were tallied to the last detail: she wouldn't give up a single thing that belonged to her, and she wouldn't take a penny that didn't.
The villagers all said the ugly Su girl had gone mad. She'd even dared to douse her own grandmother in manure.
Su Jin didn't care. She believed in one thing: whoever laid a hand on her family would pay for it.
Until one day, while gathering herbs on the back mountain, she came across a man covered in blood.
He leaned against a tree, gravely wounded and close to death, yet his eyes were as cold as an ancient, bottomless pool. He didn't look at her like she was his savior. He looked at her like she was a witness he could silence at any moment.
Su Jin gripped her hoe and looked down at him. "Don't look at me like that. Whether I save you depends on whether you're worth saving."
The man fell silent for a moment, then suddenly smiled, his expression impossible to read. "You're the first person who's ever dared to bargain with me."
Dusk fell, and a sudden wind swept through the mountains.
Su Jin didn't know who the man was, but she could tell that he had more blood on his hands than anyone she'd ever seen.
What she didn't know was that this encounter would turn her quiet life upside down.
