The heroine is holding a scumbag's script
Blurb:
Overnight, the winds of change sweep through, and the throne changes hands.
Xue Hu falls from being a noble young lady in the capital to the lowest depths.
Not one of her parents or relatives is spared.
Swallowing her humiliation, Xue Hu begs for help.
Her refined and elegant fiance says coldly, "For the sake of my clan, I absolutely cannot marry you."
The poor-born scholar who rose to prominence thanks to her mother's recommendation puts an arm around his traveling companion and laughs, "Madam, have some self-respect."
The moment Xue Hu accepts the few belongings her companion offers her with tears in her eyes,
she swears that from now on,
she'll be the one to hurt others,
and no one will ever hurt her again.
So when the heir of Prince Changxin puts a sword to his neck and declares that he won't marry anyone but her,
Xue Hu knows this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
Otherwise, the wronged souls of the capital's royal family will likely never find peace.
Later,
her cousin says with a crazed look, "I'd gladly become a jade statue to ease my cousin's sorrow."
The ringleader who murdered her entire family glares at her and asks whether she ever had feelings for him.
Her fiance, always so sure of himself, turns pale and says he let her go back then only so she could survive.
At last, she laughs out loud.
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Content warning: The author is a sucker for melodrama. I love angsty plots, have no outline, and will decide on the male lead as I go.
2022.06/27
Theme: Romance is absolutely not everything
