Nowhere to Join Hearts

A brooding, obsessive, beautiful man scarred by revenge × the daughter of his enemy, an innocent, sheltered girl at first

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They met in a peach-blossom grove. She fell for his gentleness and refined grace, and cast aside all restraint for him. He, too, sought permission for their marriage.

She thought they were in love with each other. Who could have known that on their wedding day, he would turn cold and heartless?

Only later did she learn that from their very first meeting, everything between them had been a scheme.

He hated her to the bone because she was the daughter of his enemy.

He had courted her only to drag her down from the clouds into the mud and ruin her reputation!

She had been too foolish and trusted the wrong man, so she deserved to be swept into a life of displacement and ruin, with her family destroyed.

But why, after she had become so wretched, would he still refuse to let her go?

He would not allow her to die. He forced her to live like an ant, wishing she were dead!

What did she have to do with this feud? How was she anything but innocent?

She wanted to escape, but couldn't. What gave him the right to drag her down into hell with him?

After the city fell years ago, his people either ended up in the pleasure quarters or were reduced to servants.

He took another person's identity and became "Wei Zimu."

To find a way to take revenge, he did not hesitate to ruin his own reputation and enter the game himself.

He became the dissolute favorite whom people accused of throwing the imperial court into chaos.

His entire body was tainted, and he could neither wash the filth away nor be bothered to try.

Then he discovered that the daughter of the enemy who had destroyed his family was as pure and spotless as a blank page that had never known dust.

He thought, why should she get to be so clean?

The purer she was, the more he wanted to stain her,

to drag her into this filthy mire and sink with him.

Premise: When will the cycle of vengeance ever end?