Before Mu Chenyan fainted, the final scene in her mind depicted the man's arrogant appearance as he hovered above her body.
She was only twenty-four years old but she had already experienced unbearable pain and unimaginably traumatizing incidents numerous times.
These bitter feelings equipped her with instinctive responses to withdraw.
In the darkness, Mu Chenyan seemed to see herself from fourteen years ago. This slim young lady tied her hair in two braids and naively smiled as she followed her father to the visit the Yuan Family. When she saw the incomparably noble yet quiet and gloomy young man under the shadow of the mottled pomegranate tree, the ignorant girl's crisp voice called out to him, saying, "Brother Xuan..."
