23 Chapter 84: Han Xin’s Stratagem

Free Release Schedule: Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday *** Jiang Man, raised all her life in the inner chambers, suddenly lost her father.

In a single day, everything changed. At the hour of the dragon she was still a rich man's daughter; by the hour of the rooster, a single sheet of paper had made her a slave.

And the one who bought her was her enemy.

The enemy's surname was Shen—born into pure and exalted rank, covering the sky with one hand, devouring people without so much as spitting out the bones.

Jiang Man feared her.

But Jiang Man had to please her even more.

The family business required Shen Wen's approval; Jiang Man's very survival hung on Shen Wen's favor.

With her life bound to a single person, Jiang Man treaded warily, currying favor against her own will. She was willing to be her pawn, her plaything—only she dreaded being sent into the palace, from which there was no returning.

With her great vengeance unavenged, Jiang Man endured and lived on in pain, humbling herself without scruple—one night slipping past the curtains of Shen Wen's bed.

She shared a pillow with her enemy.

Yet even sharing that pillow did not thaw Shen Wen's cool indifference.

Jiang Man's heart grew colder than Shen Wen's person.

Jiang Man waited. Waited for the day she would be sent out to gather intelligence, waited to become a wilted flower wrapped in a straw mat.

But as she waited, the Jiang Family Wine Workshop, against all expectation, returned to its former glory;

and her sickly pallor, day by day, in some silent, imperceptible way, was wiped away by someone, her very face transformed.

The day she waited for never came. Springs passed, autumns passed—and all Jiang Man gained was a heart that had moved first.

Wanting an answer for her heart, she went to find Shen Wen—and received only one weightless sentence:

"What I feel for you—what business is it of yours?"

Words spoken in broad daylight. How could Jiang Man believe them?

Through the long nights, she had her own tricks for coaxing out the truth.

And lost between sense and passion, Shen Wen murmured: "Manman, in this life, I will keep you safe..."

#ARichDaughterTragicallyBecomesAGildedCanary#

#FemaleScribeShenRebornToRedeemHerBelovedWife#

Younger-top CP: the delicate, beautiful little canary is secretly a wolf pup × the morally ambiguous Female Scribe Shen, revealed to be villain-turned-devoted.