Everyone says Chen Yue'e has a kind heart.
Most of the neighbors around her have received her help at one time or another. Even when a troublesome beggar is so hungry he crawls to her shop entrance and refuses to leave, she doesn't get angry at him for hurting her business. Instead, she brings him a bowl of noodles.
A face like Guanyin's and a heart like a bodhisattva's: that must be what people mean when they describe Chen Yue'e.
Only Chen Yue'e knows that, when she was young, she did something unforgivable. She ruined someone, crushing his dignity and trust to pieces. She deceived him. As she stared into the boy's disbelieving, shocked, resentful eyes, she clutched her stomach and struggled to her feet, then ran without looking back, faster and faster, the wind nearly slicing through her ears.
She heard the boy's anguished howls and curses behind her. He kept shouting, "I'll kill you!"
But she still didn't look back.
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A heaven-blessed child who should have lived carefree, showered with endless love and affection, Cui Huaijin changed after being betrayed and abandoned by a friend as a child, then having his eyes gouged out by bandits. His once pampered, haughty nature gave way to silence and a volatile temper.
The only person he wanted was Chen Yue'e.
He would find her,
then kill her.
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Chen Yue'e didn't know back then
that she would never escape Cui Huaijin's cage.
Kindhearted, resilient transmigrated merchant's daughter x sensitive, suspicious, twisted young nobleman
Theme: Love is a beautiful thing
