After Jiao Jiao Abandoned Him, the Crazed Marquis Came Knocking

After the Prince of Yan was defeated, Su Mian, his adopted daughter, became the captive of Xie Zhi, the Northern Zhao nobleman and first-rank young marquis. To save her own life, she offered herself to him. She knelt in a pool of blood and looked up at him, the corners of her eyes red and her voice trembling. Xie Zhi’s spear pressed against her slender neck, his dark armor reflecting a cold glint. “This marquis isn’t so desperate for a bedmate that he’d take the daughter of a traitor.” Until He recognized the cinnabar mole behind her ear. Beneath her fragile, willow-like facade lay a deadly edge, honed with poison. Xie Zhi thought he had brought home his elder brother’s caged songbird, never realizing she was a man-eating phoenix. Back at the Xie residence, Su Mian carefully plots each step: She pretends to be docile with Xie Yun while secretly ruining his reputation. She keeps Xie Zhi at arm’s length, driving the cold-faced god of war to madness for her. Together with a hostage prince and a prince from an enemy state, she turns the court upside down. Until one night, Xie Zhi grips her waist and sneers: “Su Mian, when you used my genuine feelings as a bargaining chip, did you ever think, ” “I’d make you… pay for it for the rest of your life?”