Fleeing his enemies, Shi Yue stumbled, badly wounded, into a foreign land.
It was a living hell, where ghosts roamed by the thousands.
And he couldn't find his way home.
The woman who took him in was a certifiable madwoman.
She was icy and cruel, insulting him, beating him, enslaving him, and even trying to kill him.
How could Shi Yue let her have her way?
So he bowed and scraped, gritted his teeth, lay low, and endured humiliation.
All so that, when she was at her most vulnerable,
he could deliver a fatal blow.
Seeing her, once so untouchable, drenched in blood and helplessly bound, filled him with satisfaction.
But Shi Yue's mistake was reaching out and touching her memories at the very last moment.
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In her youth, Yin Li had been trapped in a mire, surrounded by endless darkness.
She closed her eyes and let herself sink into it.
He was a ruthless thug in the eyes of others, but he saved her and punished the wicked. To her, that made him a god.
She never imagined fate could be so cruel.
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Ever since childhood, Shi Yue had been considered ill-omened.
He was cunning, deceitful, cold-blooded, rotten to the core.
A cancer that had clawed its way up from a heap of corpses.
Even when someone cut him open, he never let out a sound.
Only on the day his memories returned did he collapse beneath the Heavenly Pillar, his eyes filled with sorrow, each hoarse word like a cuckoo crying blood.
- This world is false, cruel, and overrun with ghosts.
- And you are gentle, compassionate, and ever moving forward.
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Theme: Women's wisdom and redemption.
