Back at Max Level! The Mad Emperor's One and Only Favorite!

From the age of fifteen to twenty-five, ten years passed.

Her stepsister, Shen Ruowan, told her every day, “Fu Siheng is no good. He's marrying you just to swallow up the Shen family.”

The scumbag Gu Xingzhou acted like a devoted lover in front of her every day. “Qingci, I'll always be by your side, unlike some people who only know how to force you.”

She believed them.

She humiliated Fu Siheng in public, calling him cold-blooded and domineering and saying he wasn't good enough for her.

She fell out with him for Gu Xingzhou, even declaring at a family banquet, “I, Shen Qingci, would rather die than marry him.”

He never tried to explain himself.

He only shielded her from three assassination attempts where she couldn't see, eliminated everyone who wanted to harm her, and weathered every storm in her place.

She didn't know.

All she knew was that he was silent, overbearing, and suffocating.

She didn't know his silence was restraint, or that his forcefulness was protection.

What she saw after she died

Her stepsister dropped her disguise. “Sister, do you know how much I hate you?”

The scumbag revealed his true colors. “Shen Qingci, did you really think I liked you? All I ever wanted was the Shen family's business.”

She died.

At the moment her soul left her body, she saw Fu Siheng arrive.

Alone, with one sword, he fought his way through the three hundred and seventy-two members of the Gu family.

Covered in blood, he knelt in the ruins and looked up at the gray sky.

“Qingci... In the next life, could you love me just once?”

Then he collapsed and never got up again.

Only then did she understand.

He loved her.

From beginning to end, he was the only one who loved her.

And she had hated the wrong person.

Her one wish

If she could live it all over again

I only want to...