1 – Even in death, I will drag you to hell with me.
“I’ll drag you down to hell with me even in death! Bai Ruanruan!!”
The temperature around her was abnormally high.
Bai Ruanruan’s mind kept echoing the man’s hoarse, cruel roar.
“Turn the lights to maximum brightness.”
“Steward Lin, the temperature is already very high. If it gets any hotter, something might happen to the young mistress…”
So hot!
Bai Ruanruan furrowed her brows tightly. The blinding, scorching heat from the lights above made her instinctively open her eyes.
“S-Steward Lin, the young mistress is awake,” a young maid exclaimed while adjusting the switches, pointing toward Bai Ruanruan.
Beside her, Lin Da, who had just been about to take a sip of tea, quickly turned to look at the woman shackled to the wall behind him.
Seeing that the woman on the wall had indeed opened her eyes, he set down his teacup without another word and sneered as he walked toward Bai Ruanruan. “The young mistress is awake.”
“Come, take a look at where you are. You haven’t run away, are you disappointed?”
Above her, the scorching warm light left Bai Ruanruan’s head dazed. The figure before her was somewhat blurry, yet vaguely familiar.
Where was this…
“Trying to elope with another man again, and even poisoning the young master. Let’s see how the young master breaks your legs this time!”
“Clatter—”
As soon as Bai Ruanruan moved her hands slightly, she realized she was shackled to the wall.
This situation…
A man? Elopement?
Such a familiar tone, such a familiar environment!
Bai Ruanruan widened her eyes in disbelief, carefully and thoroughly examining her surroundings.
She… she had actually been reborn again!!
To her astonishment, she had been reborn three years before her first life.
Three years ago, she, Bai Ruanruan, had repeatedly tried to escape and hurt Jiang Yihan, the one who truly loved and protected her, all for the sake of her first love, Mu Xuan.
She remembered this day—she had been deceived by her friend Su Mengshu into poisoning Jiang Yihan heavily, intending to leave this place.
However, just as she was on the verge of escaping the cage that had imprisoned her all along, Lin Da caught her and privately subjected her to “punishment.”
In her previous life, because Lin Da had nearly roasted her to death, she had vented all her resentment onto Jiang Yihan, tormenting and hurting him in every way from then on.
It wasn’t until the day he… closed his eyes after being poisoned by her that she finally managed to leave the Jiang family’s cage.
Without Jiang Yihan’s protection, she fell victim to the cruelty of her friend Su Mengshu and Mu Xuan, her heart carved out, her body exposed in the wilderness, meeting a tragic end.
How laughable, how pitiful!
After her death, she was reborn into an ancient era unrecorded in history, where she became the empress of a nation, only to be assassinated in the end.
In the moment she closed her eyes, she could never forget the sight of the man who always wore a mask, imprisoning her in the imperial harem, driven to madness and collapse.
What pierced her heart the most was how he ended his own life right before her eyes.
It wasn’t until her death that she realized—the emperor in her previous life, with his obsessive love, possessiveness, indulgence, and favoritism toward her, was so strikingly similar to Jiang Yihan…
And she never dared to imagine that, upon opening her eyes again, she would return to three years before her first life, a time when all the tragedies had yet to unfold.
“Shocked to find yourself still in the manor?” Lin Da scoffed, seeing Bai Ruanruan’s wide-eyed, stunned expression.
Gathering her thoughts, Bai Ruanruan felt a pang of sorrow deep within, taking a long, emotional breath.
Having lived two lives, she could still see Jiang Yihan again. How wonderful.
“Snap—”
Bai Ruanruan moved her wrists, and in the next moment, the shackles binding her hands shattered!