At the start of spring, Chen, a wealthy gentleman, took an eighteen-year-old woman as his concubine.
Who would have thought that barely six months after their wedding, she would fall gravely ill and die?
His son, an official serving far away in the capital, returned home to mourn and saw his father's concubine again.
The young woman wore white mourning clothes, tears running down her cheeks, her delicate, pitiful appearance stirring an involuntary sense of sympathy.
But Chen Jiayi knew that behind her face, as lovely as a jade-faced bodhisattva, lay a heart as vicious as a serpent's.
His father had died at her hands.
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When Chen Jiayi first met Xue Ning, he never imagined that one day she would become an obsession he could not banish from his heart.
The fire of passion scorched his heart and the pain sank into his bones, yet he welcomed it all.
[Reading Guide]
Stepmother romance
The female lead is inexperienced; the male lead is not
A story of mutual redemption
Theme: Even in the darkness, become a ray of light.
