"So what if my destiny does not have her. My heart is still filled with her and no one can empty it, not even me." ------------ I despised her. I despised how she schemed to get married to me. I despised her because of her arrogance. " Li Rui, you don't know how many times I have wished to kill you. " But all of this was my illusion. Everything was a mysterious trap of lies. A trap that was laid to trap me. "Rui, I want to protect you from this whole world. I will not ask you to love me.....just don't hate me. Hmm...." --------------- [This is an original story] Buy me a Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/ada_5253 My other book on Webnovel - CEO He: Please Don't Love Me (Ongoing
Before her marriage, Li Rong was actually Ci Rong, a lady from the Ci clan.
The Ci clan…although it was not as great as Li Clan in Xin, it still had its own value in the Imperial City.
It was Ci Rong's grandfather who had actually cleared the Imperial examination and made a good name for himself in the Imperial City as well as Imperial Court.
Slowly and slowly, the Ci Clan was started to be recognized but for such a recognition to get continued and become high with time …the coming generations should be more hardworking or at least not lazy compared to their ancestors.
Unfortunately, the same didn't happen with Ci Clan.
Ci Rong's grandfather had three sons, two born from concubines and one from his main wife. The two sons died somehow and only one remained that was born by a concubine.
And perhaps it was the fate's play the son was the child, Elder Ci had paid least attention to.