Wen Ran was treated as a disposable pawn by the Fu family and made to marry her older sister's place: the man they called a cripple.
His face was disfigured on one side, his legs were broken, and he was confined to a wheelchair before the Fu family threw him out. On their wedding night, he stared at her for a long time and said, “You can leave whenever you want.”
She said, “What will you do if I leave?”
He didn't answer. He only looked at her. His gaze seemed to hold everything, and nothing at all.
Later, when the Fu family came with people to seize the shares under his name, she stepped in front of him and was slapped.
The next second, he stood up.
The entire banquet hall fell silent.
He wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth, his voice as low as if it had been dragged up from the depths of hell. “Who did this?”
Wen Ran pointed toward the Fu family chairman's retreating back, but before she could speak,
he smiled. It was the first time he had smiled since his face was disfigured.
Then the Fu family chairman's arm was broken.
Later, the entire circle of wealthy families was abuzz: the cripple Wen Ran married wasn't really a cripple. Standing behind him as she watched the roomful of people kneel, she finally understood. She hadn't been sent into a marriage in someone else's place. She had been thrown into a beast-taming game. And that beast seemed to have chosen its master.
