Zhaozhao is the beautiful, pampered, and headstrong daughter of the wealthiest family in Qingzhou City.
One day, she finds a man unconscious in the snow.
Though gravely injured, he is handsome and refined, as untainted as snow on a mountaintop. Zhaozhao falls in love at first sight and brings him home to nurse him back to health. She does everything she can to win him over and lowers herself for his sake, but the man remains disdainful of her.
Unable to have the man she loves, Zhaozhao lashes him until his skin is torn and bleeding, hoping to break his proud spirit. Yet he would rather pass out from the pain than beg her to stop.
Furious, Zhaozhao makes him drink a cup of love-binding liquor.
Anyone who drinks this love potion has no cure. For the rest of their life, they can only sleep with the person who gave it to them.
Watching the once-cool, taciturn man lose himself in passion beneath her and let her order him around, Zhaozhao feels more satisfied than ever.
That very night, she has a ridiculous dream.
In the dream, the man is of noble birth. After reclaiming his identity, he takes terrible revenge on Zhaozhao for humiliating him, and poor Zhaozhao ends up with her entire family dead.
Zhaozhao wakes in a cold sweat. Trembling, she tries to make conversation with the man as he gets dressed beside her bed. "You worked so hard last night... Are you tired?"
The man falls silent for a moment. Under her astonished gaze, he takes his clothes off again.
Just as Zhaozhao is wondering what to do with the man, he unexpectedly falls off a cliff and is never found.
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After the new emperor ascends the throne, Xu Yan is named General Zhaoyong for his part in helping him claim the throne.
He is noble-born, upright and dignified, like the moon shining through a clear sky.
Yet during one official trip, he inexplicably loses a year of his memories.
What's more, he feels not the slightest interest in the suitable marriage prospects his mother has carefully chosen for him.
Until one day, his nephew brings a mother and child to him for help. The moment the woman sees him, fear flashes across her face.
As Xu Yan looks at the woman's soft, beautiful face, fragments of ambiguous memories begin to surface in his mind.
He sees himself pinning a woman beneath him and taking her without restraint.
At first, Xu Yan helps Shen Zhao and her daughter because he pities them, and because he feels guilty about secretly coveting her. He rescues her lover and family.
Her lover betrays her, and she tearfully leans against Xu Yan, sobbing as she complains, "Xu Lang, we were in love with each other."
Xu Yan's gaze grows darker.
If we were in love, Zhaozhao, why did you have another lover?
Later, in the bedroom, Xu Yan has regained his memories and restrains Zhaozhao as she tries to escape, then places the whip in her hand himself.
He sighs softly. "Zhaozhao, weren't we in love with each other?"
*Cool-headed, upright gentleman × spoiled, selfish beauty
*The heroine only whips the hero and bad people, and the hero loves being whipped by her
*Posted May 7, 2025
Theme: The past cannot be changed, but the future can still be pursued.
