
"I have saved myself countless times from dire straits, not because I have a great desire to live, but because I want to try and see if I can love him one more time." This is a line Lu Zhenyu once wrote in a book, summarizing her own tumultuous emotions and her constant struggle with love and survival.
In Beijing, everyone knew that the orphaned daughter of the Lu family was the treasure of the esteemed Young Master of the Shen family. However, when power shifted and a great change shook the capital, to save the entire Shen family, she callously told the man who came to snatch her away: "Shen Jingci, I don't need you to love me, and please remember, I don't love you."
Shen Jingci had loved Lu Zhenyu for countless years, yet he had also hated her for five. Everyone thought this vengeful Crown Prince would hate Lu Zhenyu to death. Who would have thought that on the day his 'white moonlight' returned to the country, he would still be holding a beautiful woman and speaking harshly to her, "Why are you back?"
But by night, he couldn't control his bloodshot eyes, cornering her against a wall and demanding:
"Is he good to you?"
"Whose body is better, his or mine?"
"Divorce him, will you be with me?"
"Let's forget those five years and be my wife."
It is said that the adopted daughter of the Shen family went mad overnight that year, dragging Miss Duan into a fiery grave. It is also said that the world-renowned writer Zhen Si suffered domestic violence before her death; after her suicide, her autobiography shocked the world.
And it is said that after the Shen family heir lost his beloved, his hair turned white overnight, and his heart meridians were completely damaged, living as a man by day and a ghost by night.
The power structure in Beijing underwent a massive reshuffle, with some people being successively eliminated, leaving the Shen, Si, and Feng families in a long-standing tripartite balance of power. The new patriarch of the Shen family wielded immense power, yet he only wished to hold his wife once more.