Everyone in the capital was astonished. No one knew what had gotten into Song Wanzhi, the only daughter of Prince Guang'an, but she had fallen in love at first sight with Xiao Ling, the Commander of the Imperial Guards, known as the Blood-and-Rain Yama. From then on, she couldn't stop herself. She used every means she could think of to pursue him and throw herself at him.
One was a radiant, high-born princess of the imperial family. The other was a bloodstained servant of the court. The pairing seemed utterly surreal.
After they had gone through life and death together several times, Xiao Ling gripped Song Wanzhi's slender neck, his expression dark. "I'm not someone a princess can toy with at will. Even if you grow tired of me one day, your servant will never let go. Do you still want to continue?"
"Of course." Without hesitation, she threw herself into his arms, smiling brightly as she rescued him from the hell he was trapped in.
But when the wrongful case in Xiao Ling's hands was finally resolved, he brought a marriage contract to the Prince of Guang'an's residence, only to be thrown out. All he received was her condescending reply: "A lowly ant dares to cling to the Prince of Guang'an's household? How laughable."
Only then did he finally understand that her so-called love at first sight had been a deliberate scheme to get close to him from the very beginning. The ruse was over, and their story had reached its end.
From then on, the Blood-and-Rain Yama became a madman who killed without blinking, rising to power at court atop countless corpses. To repay her humiliation a hundredfold, he even forced the princess who had once insulted him to marry him as a concubine in front of everyone.
Fortunately, after enduring torment in the marriage, the princess managed to fake her death and escape.
Only one rumor remained in the capital: "Though the princess was his concubine, the Yama has no wife anymore."
Until the two, changed beyond recognition, met again because of a case...
Content warning: The author is a shameless romantic who just wants to write an old-fashioned story full of melodramatic twists and turns.
Theme: Believe that even in despair and hardship, you can glimpse warmth.
