A Springtime Beauty to Cherish

[The Husband's Regret] [Marital Torment] [Rekindled Romance]

Four years ago, her older sister was gravely ill. On her deathbed, she begged Pei Zhi to raise her son, care for her husband, and become his second wife.

For years, Pei Zhi managed the household and poured her heart and soul into it, dreaming that she and her husband might one day grow old together in harmony. But the husband she cherished did not love her. He kept her at arm's length and treated her as a tool for caring for his child. Then his childhood sweetheart, Bai Yutong, returned to the capital, and their old love rekindled.

With a cruel mother-in-law above her, disrespectful servants below, and a husband who thought nothing of her, the grand mansion that outsiders praised as a refined and noble household became a man-eating hell, bent on wearing her down until she died.

Pei Zhi came to her senses in time and began planning to end the marriage. On a rainy night when she had nowhere else to turn, she had no choice but to knock on the door of her senior clansman in the main branch.

“My lord, can you help me get a divorce?”

The man's features were stern, his expression unmoved. “Have you thought about what price you'll have to pay?”

Soaked through in the rain, she lifted her brows. “I'll do whatever you say...”

The most powerful man in the land, Xie Jie, eldest son of the main branch of the Xie family, was rumored to have been born under an unlucky star. Several fiancées had died before the wedding, so he had given up on marrying again.

Cold and solitary by nature, he handled cases for the emperor with ruthless decisiveness and had made countless enemies through his merciless methods.

He had thought he would keep his power and spend the rest of his life alone. Yet he kept coming across a delicate woman who was treated unjustly and set up by others.

After helping her once, her shadow seemed to cast a spell on him, lodging itself in his heart.

When she had nowhere else to turn, she came to his door to plead for help.

He reached out and pulled her up, his breath hot against her. “If you come with me, there'll be no turning back.”