The Hundred Blossoms House is full of springtime girls; the bustling streets are full of beggars.
Fu Rongzheng spent two years turning me, a beggar from the roadside, into the young lady of the Lou family. After using me as a pawn for three years, he took me as his mistress.
He thought I was obedient and docile, a little rabbit in a cage. But my head is full of plans, and all I want is to escape his control.
So I started recklessly "courting death."
At his engagement banquet, I deliberately raised my glass with red-rimmed eyes. Before the feast was over, he bit my lip and warned me to behave.
At my engagement banquet, his older brother put an arm around my waist and raised his glass to the crowd. He grabbed my wrist and ordered me to observe a wife's virtue.
