The True Colors of a Charming Lady

Liu Jiaoniang spent sixteen diligent years as the eldest legitimate daughter of the Liu family. She honored her parents, doted on her younger siblings, and was virtuous, graceful, and gentle as a pearl. Everyone in Ye Capital praised her as the perfect young lady, until she had a dream. In it, the parents who cherished her became demons pushing her into a pit of fire, while the younger siblings she adored climbed to the top over her bloodied body. She had spent twenty years of her life serving as a stepping stone for the whole family. Only when she died did she learn that she was not a Liu at all, but an abandoned baby her parents had picked up by the roadside. As her parents were about to arrange a disastrous marriage for her, Liu Jiaoniang slammed the table. “Damn it, whoever wants to be a stepping stone can do it. I’m done!” That night, Liu Jiaoniang walked step by step to the gates of the Prince of Shang’s residence, a place feared by all. Rumor had it that the immensely powerful prince had built a private hell in his own mansion to torture prisoners and indulge his perverse desires. They said the murderous Prince of Shang was so ruthless that even ghosts and gods feared him. But Liu Jiaoniang knew he was the only one who could give her a chance to survive. She could either die in misery, exploited and trampled by her own family, or seek a way out in that earthly inferno. Resolutely, Liu Jiaoniang stepped into the abyss.