Overnight, Nian Yi'an went from a pampered young lady of a noble family to a servant everyone could kick around.
Shen Jinyi reached out and pulled her out of the mud.
From then on, the only son of the Marquis Ji, famed throughout the capital, had a personal maid by his side.
Nian Yi'an was overjoyed. She put him first in everything, learned the zither for him until her fingertips bled, embroidered clothes for him through the night until her eyes blurred, and took an arrow meant for him.
She thought he liked her too. It never crossed her mind that he was only pretending, or that he would even personally send her to another man's bed.
In the pouring rain, Nian Yi'an stood battered and disheveled, begging him to remember their past. Shen Jinyi sat high above her, watching her cry from afar.
“Daughter of a disgraced official, dreaming above your station.”
After kneeling all night, she received word that he was engaged to someone else. Nian Yi'an finally came to her senses, left him a farewell letter, and resolutely departed the capital.
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Shen Jinyi had always thought Nian Yi'an was nothing more than a rather useful tool to him.
Knowing she had feelings for him, he exploited her without restraint and kept her bound to servitude.
It was only when she suddenly disappeared that Shen Jinyi lost his composure for the first time. He was willing to spend a fortune to find her.
But the Nian Yi'an he spent a fortune searching for was dressed in a phoenix crown and bridal robes, marrying in grand style.
Shen Jinyi charged alone into the wedding procession and, with bloodied hands, tentatively took Nian Yi'an's fingertips.
But Nian Yi'an only sneered and shook off his hand.
“Trying to steal the bride? Get lost!”
She straightened her clothes, leaving him to kneel alone in the goose-feather snow for an entire night.
That night, he did not win a single word of forgiveness.
Theme: Independence and self-reliance
I don't understand how the heroine has the confidence to be so strong. In the last chapter, she said that she was the top leader of Shiyun Pavilion, and even if the hero came, she would still have to obey her rules. It sounded so awesome that she really had some rights, but in the end, ah?? In this chapter, she is sick and has to be forced to pick up guests. It would be easy to explain if she is actually the boss behind Shiyun Pavilion... How can a top celebrity in a red house have such a big face... To put it worse, she is a busker... Why didn't a powerful person buy her for a big price? How can the female protagonist fight with the male protagonist? I can't figure it out. Now her resistance seems to be because of her love interest with the male protagonist.
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Chu Xi, die!!!!
Come on ^0^~