After Three Years as a Slave, I Won Over the Ice-Cold Beauty with My Inner Voice

[Sweet on the Surface, Cruel Within Maid X Ice-Cold General]

Shen Lanyao was sold into slavery by her adoptive father. After narrowly escaping the slave market, she ran into Xiao Beizhi. Cold and merciless, he blocked her way when he realized she was a runaway slave.

As luck would have it, a bolt of lightning split in two and struck them both. From then on, they could hear each other's thoughts.

But Shen Lanyao didn't know that while she cursed Xiao Beizhi to high heaven in her thoughts, she appeared innocent and harmless to his face.

Xiao Beizhi, who never so much as flinched when a mountain collapsed before him, darkened his expression. Ignoring her pleas, he sent her back to the slave market.

From then on, the two, separated by their wildly different status, became enemies.

She hated him, yet somehow ended up as Xiao Beizhi's personal concubine. The noblewomen of the capital all saw her as a thorn in their side. She had to contend with scheming in the household while carefully attending to Xiao Beizhi.

At first, Xiao Beizhi took Shen Lanyao as his personal concubine only so he could keep an eye on her.

He watched her with a cold gaze as she sweetly called him "General" to his face while cursing him as a bastard in her thoughts. He sneered again and again. He'd see how long she could keep up the act!

But as he waited, he found himself falling for her.

She was clever, sly, ruthless, and audacious, yet cautious. Her status was low, but she never felt inferior. She called herself a servant, yet never looked down on herself. Confined to the inner household, she never stopped longing for freedom.

From then on, he could never take his eyes off her. But when a proud man finally bowed his head and humbly begged for her love, she seized her chance without hesitation, escaped the inner household, and spread her wings.

Only then did he realize that the little white flower in his courtyard had never forgotten what she wanted.