Beyond Romance

When Zhu Wang was brought home and saw her older sister, she felt painfully inferior.

One was a star in the heavens, the other a speck of dust in the mire.

One lived in luxury, a princess in a palace. The other struggled to make ends meet, a jinx mocked and ridiculed by everyone.

The first demand made of her after she returned to the Zhu family was that she bear a child for her sister's fiance, He Yunqi.

Once the deed was done, she wanted to drag him down into the swamp, into the dust, into the filthy mortal world.

But she never expected that she would be the only one to sink deeper and deeper.

He remained godlike, aloof and untouchable, cold and noble.

"He Yunqi, did you ever like me, even for a moment?"

"You're just a tool. Don't covet what was never meant to be yours."