Alone and helpless for more than a decade, I unexpectedly found the most perfect man in the world.
Song Zhi was peerless in appearance and character: gentle, clean, considerate, and blessed with an excellent temper.
He could cook, run a household, understand my feelings, and never lose his temper. He put me first in everything. With no parents and no one to rely on, I was pampered by him until I didn’t have to lift a finger.
For a time, I thought I was lucky enough to have found the only sincere love in the world.
Until the day I stumbled upon his earth-shattering secret.
At the back of Qinglong Temple, incense drifted through the air as blood covered the ground.
My gentle, kind husband, who couldn’t bear the sight of slaughter, stood amid a mountain of corpses and ordered coolly,
“Leave no one alive.”
I froze behind a tree, my blood turning to ice.
It turned out that from beginning to end, it had all been an act.
His tenderness was false, his harmlessness a pretense. Only his unfathomable scheming was real.
In that moment, I had just one thought: run.
So I drugged him and fled in the middle of the night, never imagining he’d catch me and take me back. He forcibly imprisoned me in the gilded cage of his prince’s manor.
After being locked up for more than a month, I escaped when the guards let their vigilance slip, but in my panicked haste, I lost my footing and fell into the river.
The raging flood swept away all my love, hatred, and fear.
A kind country couple rescued me. When I woke, I had forgotten everything about my past and had nothing.
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One spring, the market in a small town bustled with life.
On the street, I chanced upon a strikingly handsome young gentleman. Tall and elegant, he had an air of noble refinement that made it impossible to look away.
He was absolutely my ideal type, the kind of man I’d fall for at first sight.
I boldly went up to him and struck up a conversation. “Young master, is there someone in your heart? Are you engaged?”
He gazed at me, emotions surging in his eyes. After a moment, he said,
“You still dare to come and provoke me?”
