Wrist-slitting + jumping from a city tower + kneeling in the snow + imprisonment + possessive domination + redemption + chastity + multiple male leads
To protect her family, she went out of her way to please the black-hearted beauty, calling him "Cousin" again and again.
His icy fingertips touched the milky-white skin of her neck, where a pink, centipede-like scar lay. He asked, "Does it hurt?"
On the grasslands, beside a sparkling stream, the sunset was breathtaking. She slit her wrists for him.
On the night before the New Year, brilliant fireworks filled the sky. To save him, she jumped from a city tower.
In the bitter winter, the snow fell so heavily it almost blocked her vision. She wrapped him in a warm fox-fur coat and knelt beside him for days.
In winter, she plunged into an icy river to save him, though he couldn't swim.
All for the sake of the black-hearted beauty, she let go of her hatred for the Shen family.
Later, the black-hearted beauty caught sight of the lofty figure in her heart: Xie, the chancellor of the Jiang Kingdom.
The lovesick black-hearted beauty turned dark. "You can only marry me. Don't even think about anyone else. If you don't behave and marry someone else, I'll kill him... and you."
On the eve of his departure for war, he shackled her wrists, stripped off her dress, and smiled. "I'll be gone for years. You're always of two minds, so I think... I'll take your body first."
In the end, she married the black-hearted beauty's older brother, the Crown Prince. But this seemingly otherworldly man was nothing like he appeared: he was a madman.
On their wedding day, the black-hearted beauty rushed back to the capital from the frontier, gravely wounded. He watched her in her wedding dress, sheltered behind the Crown Prince, and trudged forward step by step, his expression dark.