[Arrogant Princess x Cold-Blooded Minister]
Qin Fan is the powerful and all-influential Minister of State, in charge of the power of oversight. Beneath his fair and noble exterior, he's ruthlessly ambitious, black-hearted to the core. The only touch of snow in his heart belongs to the little girl who used to hold his hand and call him Brother Fan.
He plans to make her his future wife, cherishes and loves her... and in the end, kills her with his own hands.
Overnight, she goes from a haughty young lady to a fugitive living by the blade. Her family is destroyed, and she's left with nothing.
Everyone in her life has let her down. The only one who follows her every command is the little puppy she found at the horse ranch.
He is a blank sheet of paper, and she's the one who leaves a stain of black upon it.
She names him Chen Bo, to remind him that his homeland is gone and he's just a stray dog.
She thinks he'll hate her.
She never expects him to willingly become her dog.
The person she hates most in this life is Minister Qin, in court, wearing a fair and noble mask over a heart black through and through.
He betrays her, disgraces her, and kills her.
Given another life, she'll make him taste the bitterest bitterness and the most unbearable pain this world has to offer.
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In the twenty-seventh year of Tianhe, Qin Fan helps the young emperor ascend the throne and is appointed Minister of State, in truth becoming regent.
Though he's not yet thirty, he looks like he's gravely ill.
The once-mighty young Minister Qin now, in middle age, believes in ghosts and spirits.
Some say he seeks immortality by feeding ghosts and refining elixirs.
Others say his conscience torments him and restless spirits haunt him every night.
No one knows that in the silent dead of night, he sits alone on a secluded terrace, performing a forbidden ritual in a pool of blood.
All to send one person back in time, change her fate, and grant her a life of peace and fulfillment.
Reader's guide: Fictional setting / angst, catharsis, and sweetness
[Thanks to Xia Shuangyi for the cover character design]
[The blurb was screenshotted on May 9. Plagiarism will be pursued.]
Theme: Better to climb a snowy peak than depend on someone else's favor
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