The Phoenix Tower

[Black Lotus Villainess × Defiant, Overprotective Heir: Two Strong Leads, Love and Hate]

In the imperial prison, Hua Wanning tore up the blood-written confession that falsely accused her family and was beaten to death. Only Liang Fengtai rode to the mass grave to find her. He shot an arrow through her shoulder blade, pinning her to a dead tree.

To save herself, Hua Wanning tested the poison on her own body. "If I survive, I'll repay you for this arrow in my shoulder blade one day."

"I'll be waiting," Liang Fengtai sneered. He locked her in chains with his own hands and made her test a hundred poisons for the princess, yet when the poison took hold, he cut his wrist and fed her his blood.

That night, Hua Wanning's cinnabar-painted fingertip lightly traced Liang Fengtai's Adam's apple. "Second Brother, are you going to chain me up again?"

Liang Fengtai stroked the hideous scar on her shoulder blade and whispered against her ear, biting her earlobe. "I want you alive to watch your enemies kneel and beg for mercy. I want you to smash the imperial seal into that person's face with your own hands, then share this vast realm with me."

She laughed at him for dreaming, but he pinned her to the dragon throne as rebel troops slaughtered their way through the palace.

He gripped her waist and demanded, "Do you believe me now, Ning'er?"

Hua Wanning tore open the man's collar and bit him hard enough to draw blood. "Liang Fengtai, if you ever betray me..."

"May this wound fester to the bone, and may I never find peace in the afterlife..."