【A push and pull between both sides + heart-wrenching romance + power struggles and household intrigue. A meticulous, sensitive, suspicious daughter of a disgraced official x an innocent, devoted young master from a prominent family】
When they first met, Su Wantang took him for an ordinary playboy. The third young master of the Gu family spent lavishly to buy himself a night of pleasure. He was frivolous and shallow, and not worth a second glance.
But Gu Huaijin said, “I want to marry you.”
She smiled sweetly, but tucked away her affection, calculating how to use the Gu family to uncover the truth behind her clan’s downfall.
But the human heart is the hardest thing to control.
Step by step, Gu Huaijin made his way into her heart. Su Wantang did not want to fall for him, but she could not escape it either.
Everyone said that a woman of the demimonde like her should be content to marry into a prominent family and rise from a low branch to become a phoenix.
No one knew that she, too, had once been surrounded by a loving family. Her father took her across mountains and rivers, her mother taught her embroidery and other skills, and her elder brother protected her year after year.
Then, ten years ago, a raging fire consumed everything the Su family had and left her with no way back.
How could she ever let it go? She never could. Revenge was her only reason to keep living.
When the Gu family fell, she finally avenged herself.
But he said lightly, “Su Wantang, you’ve chosen the wrong enemy.”
