After She Turned Dark, the Obsessive Young Lord Put Her on a Pedestal

[Petty Villainess Princess X The Aristocratic Family’s “Paragon,” a Serpent at Heart] Xu Yuzhen had never known sweetness in her life. After growing up through eighty-one trials, Xie Yanshan was the only piece of candy she managed to hold on to during her years as a hostage. Xie Yanshan treated her very well. In his spare time, he would do her makeup and write intimate poems with her. Even on long journeys, he remembered her jokes, traveling thousands of miles to pick a flower and gift her a sprig of spring from beyond the frontier. His eyes overflowed with tender affection. Yet this very Xie Yanshan was the one who raised his blade against her from afar when she was taken hostage, all for the sake of his lofty ambitions. Xu Yuzhen died beneath a hail of arrows. When she opened her eyes again, she found that time had turned back to the year she became a hostage. The tragedy had yet to happen. She and Xie Yanshan were still strangers. He had yet to smile with narrowed eyes and call her “forever” again and again, or stay by her side and comfort her just to deceive her. Most importantly, they had not truly met yet. Xu Yuzhen had figured it out. In this life, she would never again believe Xie Yanshan’s lies. Carrying the love of two lifetimes in his heart, Xie Yanshan went to find Xu Yuzhen, just as he had before. But the bird had already escaped its cage, free to soar beneath the boundless sky. That day, with spring sunshine and gentle breezes, he felt as if he had fallen into an icy abyss. “If you don’t want to be a happy couple, how about being mortal enemies, each trying to kill the other?”