After Becoming My Ex-Boyfriend's Maid

■ Cool, selfish, wicked woman x arrogant, cruel young nobleman

■ Coercive romance | melodrama | a sea of hatred and love

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Cheng Yizhao is beautiful, clever, and cool as the moon, but she's vain, hypocritical, vicious, and selfish, with a talent for playing with people's feelings.

Three years ago, she approached the Huo family's heir for fun and tricked Huo Yanli into falling for her. Before long, he realized Cheng Yizhao was hot and cold and lied constantly.

"It was just for fun, Mr. Huo. You didn't take it seriously, did you?"

The Huo family wielded immense power, and their heir, Huo Yanli, was the favored child of Heaven: refined, ruthless, and unwilling to be defied.

He had never imagined he'd become one of her victims.

He hated Cheng Yizhao with every fiber of his being.

But there comes a time when evil gets its due. Cheng Yizhao's family went bankrupt, and her parents handed her over to their creditors. She ended up as a maid in Huo Yanli's home.

With his revenge finally in hand, Huo Yanli had Cheng Yizhao at his mercy, his personal property. He would make her pay for every last drop of blood.

So Cheng Yizhao wore a chain around her neck and a maid's uniform, her body marked with suggestive red welts, as she was forced to kneel and scrub the floors of the Huo house.

Huo Yanli stood before her, smiling at her reddened fingertips. "Didn't Miss Cheng love using those hands to lure men?"

From standing above everyone to becoming a plaything to be abused.

Cheng Yizhao would be his doll forever.

Hatred lasted longer than love, and he fell deeper and deeper.

His close friend Lian Shiqing, who had grown up with him, tried to comfort him. "Cheng Yizhao is good at manipulating people's hearts. Don't let her fool you again."

Lian Shiqing was right. Huo Yanli began the painful process of cutting her out of his life. He would stay away from Cheng Yizhao, turn back before it was too late, let go for good, and never be deceived again!

Before Huo Yanli had learned how to let go, he saw his best friend, Lian Shiqing, locked in a passionate kiss with Cheng Yizhao at the end of an alley.

Jealousy, fury, and hatred blazed in Huo Yanli's heart.

Only then did he understand: love meant possessing, destroying, and tearing things apart. To get the person you wanted, you had to use any means necessary. If it came to it, you could both go down together and be destroyed.

Theme: Learn to pursue happiness.