Claiming the Pearl

Jianjian, the legitimate daughter of the He family in Jiangnan, was sweet and lovely. She was in love with the heir apparent of the Wei family, and they had a bright future ahead of them.

But no one knew that she was actually a fake heiress who had spent over a decade desperately hiding her identity.

Her cousin, Shen Zhouyi, was handsome and refined, and a skilled doctor who devoted himself to helping others. He was the pillar of the family.

She always kept her behavior measured and tried to please Shen Zhouyi. He was courteous and gentle, and had looked after her for years. They had always kept to their own sides of the line.

But disaster struck again and again. First, her father died a horrific death, and the heir apparent married someone else. Then her false identity was cruelly exposed, and her whole family cast her aside... Only then did Jianjian realize that she was the one Shen Zhouyi had been plotting to possess all along.

Her happiness was torn away from her, and she refused to accept it. She tried to fight back. The first time she planned to escape, she drew a detailed map, but Shen Zhouyi tracked her down a hundred li away and brought her back. The second time, she tried to drug him with a bewildering incense, but he turned the tables on her. The more fiercely Jianjian resisted, the harsher Shen Zhouyi's punishments became. In the end, she lost everything.

Jianjian finally realized that in her previous life, she had been Shen Zhouyi's enemy, and that he had come to take revenge on her in this life.

In the end, she devised a plan to burn Shen Zhouyi alive. Only after confirming again and again that he had stopped breathing did she set off with the heir apparent for the vast grasslands of the northern frontier, where they enjoyed a period of freedom and happiness.

Unexpectedly, Shen Zhouyi survived. With half his face burned beyond recognition, he stubbornly tracked her down.

His medical skills were miraculous, and he tormented the heir apparent until he was on the brink of death...

"Watch your lover die, or trade your freedom for his life."

Jianjian had no choice.

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In his previous life, Shen Zhouyi was a Buddhist monk who did good deeds and accumulated virtue, yet met a violent end.

In this life, he had come to make Jianjian pay her debt.

But as he pursued that debt, things began to change. First, he let her slap him without fighting back. Then, even after she burned half his face, he didn't hate her. In the end, all he wanted was to kneel before her and humbly beg her to love him, just a little.

Love me once.

In this life or the last, just once.

Even if it costs me my life, that's fine.

*Angsty, melodramatic romance

Theme: Learn to see the underlying logic of things, and don't be misled by appearances