Spring Never Misses Its Mark

Reborn | A sinister, obsessive prince x a noblewoman reborn

Ruan Liufeng's life was a joke.

She had a childhood friend, the Crown Prince, and the two had been inseparable for as long as she could remember. Everyone assumed she would become the most honored woman in the Eastern Palace.

Ruan Liufeng thought so too.

But on the day of her wedding, she shyly put on her phoenix crown and waited. The wedding procession never came. Instead, the Embroidered Uniform Guard arrived to confiscate her family's property and wipe them out.

In a single night, the aristocrats became traitors accused of treason, and the pampered daughter of a noble family became a prisoner.

At last, Ruan Liufeng understood the truth. From beginning to end, she had been nothing but a pawn, a blade the Crown Prince used to strike down the Ruan family.

On the seventh day of her imprisonment, the eleventh prince, Xie Xiyu, came to visit. He brought her a cup of poisoned wine and a question.

He asked if she wanted to live.

Still wearing her tattered wedding dress, Ruan Liufeng reached her scarred hand through the bars and clutched the hem of his pristine robe, begging through her sobs, "Save me."

From that day on, a manor outside the capital kept a gentle, affectionate canary. Music and bamboo flutes played day and night, drowning her in pleasure and heartbreak.

Ruan Liufeng became Xie Xiyu's plaything, held in the palm of his hand.

Every time she played a game with him, he helped her kill someone.

Only after twenty-some skulls had been neatly lined up before the Ruan family shrine did Ruan Liufeng finally avenge her family. With a sense of release, she drank the cup of poisoned wine that had come three years too late.

Xie Xiyu rushed into the shrine and scooped up her thin, paper-like body.

As Ruan Liufeng's consciousness was about to fade, she met his eyes and saw an anguish too profound to bear.

Why did he really look like a man whose wife had just died?

Ruan Liufeng wanted to smooth his brow with the tender smile she used to wear, but she could no longer lift her hand.

She closed her eyes peacefully, pretending not to hear his choked sobs and screams.

Ruan Liufeng woke from a dream feeling light as air, only to discover that fate had restarted and she had returned to her most innocent, carefree years.

Fine rain fell like silk, and the crabapple blossoms trembled.

Ruan Liufeng felt as if she had stepped on something. She looked down and saw a person's finger.

She jumped back and hurriedly apologized. Then she crouched down, parted the weeds, and saw a badly wounded young man. As she reached out to help him, she accidentally met his dark, shadowed eyes.

Ruan Liufeng froze in astonishment. It's you?

Flowers keep their promise, spring never comes late. May we never let each other down, year after year.

1. The male lead is deeply in love, but convinced that the woman he loves can never be his, and suffers from persecutory delusions.

2. The heroine is somewhat psychologically divided and an expert at taming wolves.

Core theme: Never let true love down.