I Accidentally Provoked a Mad Powerbroker

Xue Ying was born into a lowly family and suffered endless bullying in the Su household.

Her only dream was to save up enough silver to take her mother and escape.

Then Prince Yan rebelled. Her brother-in-law's entire family was executed for treason.

Before Xue Ying could even understand what was happening, her throat was slit.

When she opened her eyes again, she had returned to the year before Prince Yan's rebellion. Knowing she could not change the political landscape, Xue Ying only hoped that she and her mother could survive the chaos in peace.

Someone gave her an idea: the county magistrate controlled the household registers. If she could marry his son, she could leave the Su family.

Desperate to escape her fate, Xue Ying had no choice but to seduce the magistrate's son.

She spent two whole months hanging around outside the county yamen. Then one day, she really did find the magistrate's son, covered in blood.

Heaven had smiled on her: the magistrate's son had lost his memory and remembered no one.

Xue Ying had a sudden idea and tricked him into believing she was his fiancee.

She had planned to use the opportunity to build a close relationship with him, then tell him who he was later. Even if he still refused to marry her, she had saved his life. It would be no trouble to use that debt to get her household registration transferred out.

Xue Ying had planned it all perfectly.

But she never noticed that the man she'd brought home was gentle on the surface, yet actually deceitful, and had tried to kill her several times.

By the time his wounds had healed, Xue Ying was preparing to explain everything. But Prince Yan's followers came looking for him. Hidden nearby, Xue Ying watched as the man who had always seemed so refined and kind, in every word and gesture, took up a blade with his own hands. Blood covered the ground.

Only then did Xue Ying realize that the man she'd saved was not the county magistrate's son at all. He was Xie Ce, the rebel Prince Yan.

Thinking of all the times she had deceived him, Xue Ying was sure the ferocious Prince Yan would never let her go.

So before Xie Ce could react, Xue Ying gathered all their belongings and fled with her mother.

**

Prince Yan, Xie Ce, was cruel and arrogant, yet blessed with the handsome looks of a jade-like gentleman.

He had never imagined that one day he would lose his memory and be deceived by the lowborn daughter of a merchant.

She told him he was her fiancee, that she had saved his life, and that he must never mistreat her. She also made him promise to grant her one request.

Xie Ce agreed to everything.

But the first thing he did after recovering his memory was execute everyone who had betrayed him in Xue Ying's home. He also accidentally let her see it.

In Xie Ce's eyes, Xue Ying was timid, afraid of death, and prone to tears.

He didn't think she would do anything to hurt him. But one day, when he saw that timid, cowardly girl hold a sword to his chest for the sake of a useless man, he realized he might have overlooked something.

She had never said she loved him.

Yet she had tricked him into making promise after promise to her.

The Prince Yan who finally caught on darkened his expression. Looking at her trembling fingers gripping the sword, he curled his lips into a faint smile.

He was certain.

Xue Ying didn't have the guts.

"Reading Guide"

A girl who only wants to survive VS a scheming, unhinged rebel prince burdened by hatred

Theme: Keep striving to live, even in the depths of hardship