Mad Dog

After a palace coup and a change of rulers, the Li clan fell from power. The entire family was arrested, their home confiscated, and they were exiled.

The Li family had a legitimate daughter named Li Xianning. She had grown up in the lap of luxury, with a beauty as ethereal as a goddess and unmatched in its splendor. She had countless admirers.

Now that she had lost her support, she was like the moon falling from the clouds. Everyone wanted to pluck this rare flower from the mountaintop and claim her for themselves.

Seeing wolves circling and tigers watching hungrily, Mother Li had no choice but to entrust her to Li Fushan, an illegitimate son who had only recently been welcomed back into the family.

Li Fushan had spent many years out in the world, where he had mastered all sorts of unorthodox skills. He was also strange and sinister by nature, and had never been well liked by his family.

As his legitimate older sister, Li Xianning had never shown him any warmth. She had even coldly watched as several of her unruly older brothers bullied him.

Now that the family had fallen, she could only flee with her illegitimate younger brother, her life entirely in his hands.

Xianning knew that the young man held grudges and repaid every slight. Her fate would be no better than that of the others who had bullied him.

At first, she tried to win him over, but soon discovered that he was impervious to both kindness and threats. He constantly intimidated her and spoke cruelly to her, showing no manners or respect whatsoever.

Li Xianning spent every day on edge, afraid he would take revenge by killing her. At last, after waking from a nightmare one night and finding the young man sharpening a knife, she could take no more.

She stretched out her slender neck.