She was an utterly ordinary girl, the least remarkable person in the world. Born into a wealthy family, she was so insignificant that no one cared about her.
She grew up surrounded by cold stares and abuse. People cornered and humiliated her, hurled insults at her, beat her, and even used her as a bargaining chip, pushing her into the abyss. Yet she never truly resented them.
She was gentle, meek Cheng Nian, an orphan ground down by fate, a faint glimmer in the dust that no one pitied.
Until
On her wedding day, the person she loved abandoned her in front of everyone at the altar;
In their marital bed, she caught him in the throes of passion with his old flame;
Her hopeful heart was rewarded with separation from her child and unbearable pain.
When the last remnant of her sincerity was brutally crushed, she offered up blood and tears, burying her former innocence and tenderness and strangling her own timid self with her bare hands.
Three years later, at a grand event watched by all, the woman who strode confidently and outshone everyone was named Mansha.
She shed her weakness and took on the aloofness of a lone wolf, the cunning of a fox, and the ruthless cruelty of a viper. She became a dazzling and dangerous presence.
She was no longer the Cheng Nian who could be preyed upon at will.
Returning to where it all began, she would make everyone who had trampled on her, hurt her, and destroyed her pay, one by one.
She thought that once the old scores were settled, everything could finally end.
But a conspiracy buried for years slowly surfaced, and as undercurrents surged, the criminal underworld was swept into turmoil.
Love and hate entwine, and fate is hard to escape.
After returning from the flames, where will she go from here?
