This love has nothing to do with romance, only with you.
It's nice to meet you for the first time.
I'm Shuyu. It's my good fortune to meet you.
Excerpt from the chapter "The Past":
She rarely thought back on it anymore. In the few memories that remained, whenever she remembered the marks she had found on Helan Yuan, left by whipping and pinching, it felt as if her heart itself were trembling.
Three more years passed like that. Just after she turned ten, the orphanage ran into cash-flow problems and decided to abandon a group of children in the wilderness to fend for themselves.
Unluckily, she and her cousin were among the first chosen.
Even now, she found it laughable. They had compromised again and again just to stay alive, sacrificing their dignity, their purity, their bodies, and even their souls... Yet fate had never been willing to leave a bright path for the lonely and helpless.
Perhaps a normal person could never dream up days like those. To survive, they clung to each other, fought wild beasts, ate raw meat, and gave everything they had for a bite of food.
Every second was spent barely clinging to life.
Theme: The world is beautiful, and love and hate are both romantic.
