On her way to Jiangnan, Cui Lingyi is abducted by bandits. In the cell, she finds a reliable protector, only to discover he is far more capable than she imagined, almost as if he can do anything.
So she deliberately curries favor with him and contrives to keep him by her side.
You’re clearly a woman! Why is he looking at me so strangely?
He’s getting clingier by the day, always wanting us to share a room.
This won’t do. I’m engaged, after all.
In the dim dungeon, she is the brightest flower of all, clever and perceptive, yet the one who chooses to draw near.
Since you were the one who started this, you don’t get to be the one who ends it.
