At seven years old, she knelt on the gravel path outside the Shen family mansion, blood from her knees staining the blue bricks red. Her mother died that same day, under mysterious circumstances.
At eighteen, she was handed over like a piece of merchandise to the Ye family's third young master. Everyone watched, waiting for her to be tortured to death.
But she refused to give them the satisfaction.
On her wedding day, she staged her own suicide and fooled everyone with a fake death. Then she rose to her feet and walked, step by step, into the most dangerous man's world.
Ye Jingheng, the crown prince of the capital's elite circle. Everyone feared him. She alone did not.
He asked her, “What are you after?”
She said, “The truth.”
But the truth was crueler than she had imagined: her mother had not been murdered, and she had been no saint herself. And the family of the man she fell in love with was connected to her mother's death.
When old grievances become love and hate, and revenge becomes redemption, what path should she take?
