[Transmigrates Into a Book and Awakens / Forbidden Romance, Desire Before Love / Never Takes Abuse / Businesswoman Protagonist / He Chases Her After the Breakup / One-on-One, Both Leads Are Each Other's First]
After transmigrating into the body of a true heiress who was abused to death, Shen Qingci refuses to be anyone's punching bag.
Her biased parents want to take her birth mother's dowry? Her adopted sister fakes an illness to steal her fiance?
She sneers and turns away, then limps through the night and climbs into the secret chamber of the Northern Office of the Embroidered Uniform Guard...
Outside the screen, her fiance urgently begs for medicine.
Inside, Shen Qingci pulls the brocade belt from the python robe of her cold, powerful elder brother and kisses the living King of Hell, the man no one in the capital dares provoke!
In public, Huo Xuandu is cool and restrained, addressing her by the rules: "Younger brother's wife."
In private, his large hand in a black deerskin glove grips the back of her neck as he surrenders to desire. "You've boarded my ship. If you dare jump overboard, I'll skin you alive."
Later, Shen Qingci uncovers the false accounts and reclaims her entire family business. She breaks off her engagement before the emperor and takes charge of Jiangnan's finances, then leaves for Jinling with a letter ending their relationship: "Protection without a proper title is just charity. Lord Huo, let us settle our affairs, public and private."
The cold-blooded King of Hell, decisive and ruthless, vomits blood and loses his mind on the spot!
He abandons his military seal and rides alone to Jiangnan. He kneels in the rain all night outside the governor's residence, humbly clutching the hem of her skirt with red-rimmed eyes.
"Qingci, I'll give you my official robes, my life, the whole world... Please marry me."
