The Phoenix Tower

[Black Lotus Criminal × Arrogant, Protective Heir] [Two Strong Leads, Constantly Clashing Yet Falling in Love]

In the imperial prison, Hua Wanning tears up the blood-stained letter that framed her family and is beaten to death. Only Liang Fengtai rides to the mass grave to find her. He shoots an arrow through her shoulder blade, pinning her to a dead tree.

To save herself, Hua Wanning tests poison on her own body. "If I survive, I'll repay you for this arrow in my shoulder blade one day."

"I'll be waiting," Liang Fengtai sneers. He personally shackles her and makes her test a hundred poisons for the princess, yet when she succumbs to poison, he cuts his wrist and feeds her his blood.

That night, Hua Wanning's cinnabar-painted fingertip lightly traces Liang Fengtai's Adam's apple. "Second Brother, are you going to chain me up again?"

Liang Fengtai strokes the ghastly scar on her shoulder blade and whispers against her ear, biting its lobe. "I want you to live long enough to watch your enemies kneel and beg for mercy. I want you to smash the imperial seal into that person's face with your own hands, then share this vast realm with me."

She laughs at him for dreaming, only for him to pin her to the dragon throne as rebel soldiers bathe the palace in blood.

He grips her waist and demands, "Do you believe me now, Ning'er?"

Hua Wanning tears open the man's robe and bites him hard enough to draw blood. "Liang Fengtai, if you betray me..."

"May this wound fester to the bone, and may I never find peace, not even in death..."