How Deep Must Love Be Before I Can Confess?

That year, she was brought back to the Shi family. She thought she was returning to her roots in a powerful family that valued blood ties above all else, but it turned out to be nothing more than a scheme to use her. She married him, thinking she was escaping one pit of fire, only to fall into another abyss.

She knew perfectly well that this man didn't love her. She knew he would never shelter her from life's storms, and she had never dared to hope he would. Still, she hoped that amid all his struggles for money and power, he wouldn't use her as a pawn. But in the end… in the end…

“Shi Nuan, we’ve always just been using each other.”

Yes, wasn’t that the truth? She had been so foolish, thinking she’d finally found someone willing to save her from a life of wandering. How could she have forgotten what kind of man he was…