For five years, in her marriage to the Fu family, Lu Yao was a substitute kept in the shadows, sacrificed to pay off her younger sister’s debts.
During the five years Fu Yunshen was disabled, brooding, and violent after a car accident, she stayed by his side every moment, enduring humiliation as she helped him through it.
She married him in place of her wicked younger sister, swallowed every grievance, and hid all her sharp edges, believing that sincere love would earn her a gentle life together.
But Fu Yunshen always kept Lu Xue, his supposedly dead first love, in his heart.
He spoke to her with cutting cruelty and treated her as cheap and worthless. He played favorites and indulged Lu Xue, letting her frame and slander Lu Yao time and again, destroying everything she had.
She lost the child she carried, fell into depression, and was left with a lifelong heart condition. All she got in return was the disgust and distrust in his eyes.
Then Lu Xue made a grand return to the country and exposed the five-year deception.
Lu Yao had never stolen Lu Xue’s marriage. Lu Xue had despised the disabled, down-and-out Fu Yunshen, faked her death, and pushed Lu Yao into hell!
As the truth was revealed piece by piece, Fu Yunshen finally came to his senses. His legs healed and he rose to the height of power, but he had completely lost Lu Yao, the woman who had loved him with all her heart.
The colder and more obsessive he had been, the more consumed by remorse he became.
He became the most humble king on the internet, gave up his power, knelt in the dust, slaughtered every enemy, and relentlessly pursued his wife, spending the rest of his life atoning.
But Lu Yao’s heart had long since turned to ash. She walked away with grace, rose from the ashes, and reached the pinnacle of the international stage, dazzling and brilliant, never stopping for him again.
Her old wounds lingered, but love and hate had both faded away.
He spent the rest of his life alone, repenting night after night, keeping watch over a river of moonlit beauty and living with regret.
She broke free of her chains and turned toward the sun. From then on, her world was open and unburdened, and Fu Yunshen was no longer part of it.
A love that burned the heart
ended with
him regretting it for the rest of his life, and her beginning anew
