Love's Sorrow

Prologue

Heartbreak Valley

Pavilions and waterside halls, with white gauze curtains hanging softly.

A beautiful woman in white, cool and aloof, lay quietly within. Her long hair flowed like water, her skin was fair as snow, and her sorrowful, wistful eyes held an indescribable, soul-stirring allure.

“Perhaps he has already forgotten me?” Her delicate lips parted, revealing a trace of sadness. “Sigh...” She let out a long, weary sigh. The sound of her zither drifted on the breeze, mournful and lonely, as if weeping out an endless sorrow and countless strands of grief. Like a delicate flower about to wilt, she was heartbreaking to behold...

“Crane!” A cry rang out from the sky. The zither music stopped abruptly, and a girl in yellow slowly floated down from above.

“Valley Master, this subordinate discovered that Xiao Renyu, under pressure from Old Madam Xiao, married on the twenty-eighth of last month...”

Her shoulders twitched. Her face drained of color. “Go on.”

“His newlywed wife, Pei Hongliu, is said to be his cousin, whom he grew up with...”

“Enough!” She seized the zither strings, cutting into her flesh.

Blood... trickled slowly from her fingertips.

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