A Trade Secret

Ever since that day when Lin Xiaofei told him of her past, as if he was running into a loop of nightmares, Qu Xing Xu would always wake up with his forehead wet with sweat.

In his dreams, he could see the endless darkness that swallowed up the cage that kept her from the outside world, from the living, and every second drove a thorn straight to his heart. Seeing her wretched fate and figure on the floor, with torn flesh and bleeding buckets of blood, it was always the dream he would soon wake up to.

Qu Xing Xu grew up being told of how cruel the world could be. His elders prepared him and he even taught himself on how to be ruthless. And it wasn't surprising to know that some, let alone most of the royal family would engage in cruelty.

Yu Fangzhu was no exception.

However, it didn't bode well for him when he imagined the time when Lin Xiaofei was under the dungeon and held there for months only to be tortured like an animal.