Seven years ago, Yan Se was betrayed by her boyfriend, Gu Yan, the second young master of the powerful Gu family.
Gu pushed her away as a way to please his new love. After her leg was broken, she crawled home like a dog.
Over the next seven years, Yan Se fought her way into the Gu Group and became the CEO’s secretary. She later married Gu Yan’s older brother, Gu Changyuan, and became the wife of the head of the Gu family.
Seven years later, after her husband’s funeral, Yan Se finally collected the debt she was owed!
In front of her husband’s portrait, she pinned Gu Yan, her former lover and current brother-in-law, to the floor and humiliated him, forcing him to beg her for forgiveness...
After trampling him underfoot, she turned around and sold him off in a marriage alliance with another powerful family...
From then on, the foolish yet beautiful young master had to survive in the Qin family by becoming the softest yet most unexpected blade in her hand, and her most powerful weapon for taking down the four great families...
The heir of the family he was married into couldn’t stop thinking about her, and would do anything to be with her...
Her “resurrected” husband loved and hated her, yet could do nothing but watch her step over him on her way up, while he rotted in the mud because of one mistake...
The Gu family’s chief bodyguard was utterly devoted to her, willing to stain his hands with blood and clear away every obstacle in her path...
And she intended to use them all as stepping stones, climbing ever higher.
This time, she would stand at the very pinnacle of power, make the four great families bow at her feet, and make everyone who had ever hurt her pay in blood!
Laicheng is the spiritual capital of Huaguo.
At its heart, a towering divine pillar has protected Huaguo for thousands of years.
The Gu, Qin, Bai, and Lin families are its most devout guardians. They live under the divine pillar’s protection and, from generation to generation, serve the spirit residing within it.
Each head of the four families is the finest guardian of their era. Every family’s fate and standing are closely tied to the abilities of its guardian.
Gu Changyuan, head of the Gu family, was the finest guardian of his generation. But just before the new blessing ceremony, he discovered that his spiritual power had vanished without a trace.
If the truth came out, it would spell disaster for the entire Gu family. So he had to fake his death and leave to search the source of the spirit pillar for a way to restore his powers.
Before he left, he raised his always-gentle, considerate, and unfailingly devoted wife to a position of power, hoping she could manage the Gu family for him. He never imagined that after leaving, there would be no place for him in the Gu family ever again...
After he was gone, his wife not only sold his younger brother into a marriage alliance, but also became entangled with the heirs of the Qin, Bai, and Lin families. She even sent wave after wave of assassins to kill him...
He dragged his battered body back to the Gu family, only to see “Gu Changyuan” standing in the splendid, bustling hall, arm in arm with her, playing the thoughtful and supportive husband, just as she had once done for him...
Only then did he realize that his perfect wife was not only breathtakingly beautiful, but also utterly ruthless. Her gentleness and virtue were nothing but a disguise, meant to chew him up, and chew through the Gu family’s disguise too...
Though Gu Yan was a young master of the Gu family, he was neglected as a child and sent to live with a distant uncle in the countryside.
Yan Se was the only light in those years when he lived under someone else’s roof.
He loved her more than his own life.
So when the man who was his father in name only came to him and used Se Se to threaten him into marrying into the Lin family, he agreed. But he never expected those bastards to hurt Se Se...
He was determined to die alongside the Lin family’s old hag on his wedding day, turn the Gu and Lin families against each other, and avenge Se Se...
But then the head of the Lin family died.
His plan failed. He had hoped to escape the Gu family and find Se Se, but instead, she married into the family...
She married his older brother and became his sister-in-law.
But he was still overjoyed. At last, he could see his Se Se again...
But what right did that obsessive control freak, Gu Changyuan, have to use the Gu family’s stupid rules to discipline Se Se?!
He hated him for disregarding Se Se’s wishes and trying to tame her into the perfect wife.
He wanted him dead!
So he secretly helped Se Se trick Gu Changyuan away and take the position of family head. Then he made himself out to be a weak, useless pushover and personally offered himself up for Se Se to enjoy...
He thought he could finally stay by Se Se’s side...
But Se Se was even more ruthless than he’d imagined. She was going to sell him to the Qin family, a den full of perverts...
But so what?
Whatever Se Se wanted, he would give her...
He would do whatever it took to make her wish come true!
If his Se Se wanted the four great families, why should she settle for one little Gu family? Or even two?
P.S.
All male leads and male supporting characters are C!
The heroine’s values do not represent those of a normal person in the real world!
Everyone is wicked, lunatics are everywhere, and perverts are as common as dogs!
This is a modern alternate universe. Do not compare it to real society!
Theme: Be self-reliant and resilient, and keep thriving.
When I read the first chapter, I was worried that it was too bloody, but it gradually became reasonable after the settings began to be improved. Very well written so far.