[A ruthless marquis’s desperate redemption × strong yet tragic heroine × clear-eyed orphan who never looks back]
Orphan Lin Wu is betrayed by her closest friend and sold into Yongning Marquis’s household as a lowly bondservant.
One night, Gu Jingchuan forces himself on her while under the influence of drugs.
When he comes to his senses, he sees her as a lowborn maid who deliberately seduced him and immediately orders her beaten to death. He thinks she is utterly beneath him.
Everyone else hopes to curry favor with the powerful nobles of the marquis’s household. She alone coldly plots to escape, determined never to give anyone her heart.
The marquis’s household hosts a grand flower banquet to welcome the noble young ladies of the capital. They are all talented and refined, yet none can stir his heart like a maid who came from the mud.
When she finally escapes and goes far away, the iron-blooded marquis, now a powerful military commander, journeys to the ends of the earth and storms a den of wolves, all to ask her to marry him.
Bound by class, pursued by the marquis’s obsession and a general’s devotion, she relies on no one’s charity as she crushes every prejudice about noble and lowborn alike.
