Shen Jinghong, the illegitimate daughter of the Shen family, is forced to take her elder legitimate sister’s place and marry Li Mingyuan, rumored to be a living King of Hell.
No one knows that beneath her wedding dress, she hides three things:
1. Her birth mother’s blood-written letter: the Li family owes the Shen family three lives.
2. Seven-Step Death Powder: enough to rot Li Mingyuan’s internal organs within three months.
3. A farewell letter: she never plans to return alive.
As the red candles flicker, she presses a dagger to his throat.
“The Li family’s blood debt must be repaid.”
The man doesn’t flinch. Instead, he gives a soft laugh.
“Ten years, and you still like using that dagger.”
He raises his hand. An old scar across his palm matches the edge of her blade perfectly.
He is the dying boy she once dug out of a mass grave as a child.
She is the only faith he carved into his bones in the darkness.
He doesn’t want a bride in someone else’s place. He wants the salvation he has plotted to seize for ten years.
She doesn’t want to be the lady of a wealthy family. She wants to be the blade that brings the Li family to its knees.
When a possessive, lovesick man meets a beautiful madwoman, this isn’t sweet romance. It’s two mad souls falling for each other.
This isn’t a bride swap. Hunter and prey have traded cages.
[Possessive-love warning] His way of loving her is to let the whole world hurt her, so he can become her only refuge.
[Revenge warning] She hates him because he killed her whole family, but the one who killed them was her own father.
