Everyone in the capital knows that National Master Xie Chenyuan is a living king of hell, cold-blooded and ruthless, and not close to women.
The only exception is Su Qingwan, the legitimate daughter of the Zhenguo Hou Mansion.
He broke the strings of the piano for her, and cut off the hands of her enemies for her.
But no one knew that the blood jade buckle that she had worn on her wrist for ten years was taken out by him from the fire that burned for three days and nights in the Zhenbei Marquis Mansion.
Ten years ago, the lives of 137 people in the Zhenbei Hou Mansion were reduced to ashes overnight.
Ten years later, he was in power, but he trapped her in a small space, teaching her to play the piano and chess.
But on this chessboard, she is the pawn and he is the general.
At the palace banquet, he broke her string just to draw out the jackals behind him; when the Hou Mansion was surrounded, he put the knife on the necks of her father and brother with his own hands, but instead slaughtered the blood of the traitorous officials in the palace.
She hated him to the core, hated him for using her, hated him for cheating.
But he wrapped the bloody strings around his fingertips and chuckled in her ear, his voice hoarse:
"Wan'er, only I can wash the blood on my hands for you. Only I can kill the ghosts in this city for you."
It wasn't until the day the truth came out that she understood——
The fire ten years ago was lit by him when he crawled back from hell for her alone.
