An ornate carriage rolled through the streets. By the roadside was a filthy little beggar, covered in blood and reeking with grime.
The cannon-fodder beauty looked at him with disgust. “He's filthy. Hurry up and go.”
The fated heroine looked at him with pity. “Poor thing.”
The little beggar was actually an imperial heir who would one day rule the mortal world with an iron fist.
The cannon-fodder beauty, Mi Rao: Oh, well.
Before long, she fell into his hands.
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As the Sacred Land's number one beauty, Mi Rao had been pampered and privileged, with everything going her way, for more than a decade.
Then her family fell into hardship. She went from being adored by all to being cast into the dirt, and her former friends and relatives all kicked her while she was down.
A beauty who has fallen from the clouds inspires the most pity, and draws the most attention from wolves.
At her most helpless and wretched, Mi Rao ran into the imperial heir she had once looked down on.
Returning kindness for cruelty was never something Xiao Yu would do.
So when he saw her with nowhere to turn, begging him for help, he laughed with wild abandon.
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The past was like smoke. Over the years, Xiao Yu had often recalled in the dead of night the girl he had glimpsed through the carriage window, its curtain half drawn.
The look she had given him was full of superiority, contempt, and disgust, as if he were a patch of mud and she were afraid he'd soil her eyes.
Now, he lowered his eyes with a smile, savoring the sight of the goddess finally falling from her high pedestal and landing in his filthy mud.
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Mi Rao gritted her teeth. How dare this bastard... How dare he... How could he?
The years of humiliation and absurdity that followed are another story. Mi Rao began hoping every day that he would fall from power.
When her wish finally came true, Mi Rao was reborn. The Immortal City had not yet fallen into decline, and Xiao Yu was not yet powerful enough to dominate the Three Realms.
Mi Rao was overjoyed! Fueled by her grudge, she rolled up her sleeves and went looking for that bastard Xiao Yu!
But in the enormous iron cage put on display for all to see, she found a frail, pale boy, covered in wounds and drenched in blood.
A crowd of young immortals outside cheered.
It was Xiao Yu.
“What kind of imperial heir is he? He's a half-demon, carrying the lowly blood of the demon race. What makes him think he deserves it?!”
Mi Rao froze. She had never known that this future powerbroker, after being reclaimed by his family, had endured such a miserable life.
She felt a little gleeful at his misfortune, but for some reason, she remembered how he would one day come to her aid, covered in blood and wielding a blade as he cut down her enemies.
“Stop crying. You're so annoying.”
She snorted, lowered her sleeves, and decided to give him a hand. Then they would go their separate ways.
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Later, everything turned out as Mi Rao had hoped.
The Immortal City flourished, and the great demon by her side learned forgiveness, kindness, and even how to smile. There wasn't a trace of his past ferocity left.
But she didn't know.
Xiao Yu was still a vicious wolf, and he, as a young man, was so consumed by his repressed longing for her that he was going mad.
*Down-on-her-luck cannon-fodder beauty x ravenous, predatory wolf
*One-on-one romance, happy ending
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