The Jade-Covered Farewell

Tang Xishu is the gentle, well-bred young lady praised by everyone in the capital, with a shrewd mind and plans at every turn.

She lifts Shen Yanci from the mud, offers him shelter and kindness, and carefully hones him into a blade of her own, one she can use to stir the capital's game of power and protect the Tang clan.

She thinks she has everything under control, and that he is a pawn who will bow to her will and be grateful.

But she never imagined that the young man who crawled out of the abyss had already come to see her gentle trap as the only light in his life.

Beneath his docile, respectful facade lurks a madness that gnaws to the bone.

She moves the pieces, hoping to use him to turn the tides;

He keeps his edge hidden, wanting only to break the game and keep the player imprisoned at his side forever.

A false white lotus of a noblewoman x a lovesick, sweet-faced but sinister young man. A battle of wits on both sides, each step drawing them deeper.