Entwined in the Deep Mist

When she was ten, Jiang Li, an orphan from the Jiang family, had spent two years drifting from place to place before the Gu family, one of Jingzhou’s most powerful families, took her in. Her guardian became the Gu family’s second young master, Gu Zhishen. The eighteen-year-old was strikingly handsome, aloof and aristocratic to the point of arrogance. He looked down at the pitiful little girl before him with cold disdain. Jiang Li desperately wanted to hold on to the stability she had finally found. She was obedient, polite, and well-behaved, and timidly called him through tear-filled eyes, “...Big Brother?” He gave a mocking laugh and ran a hand over her head as if petting a dog. “Trying to make me your big brother?” Later, on the night he turned eighteen, rain poured outside the window