The stakes in these chapters are escalating in the most painful way possible. Let me break down what everyone is risking: Xiao Muchen is risking his life — he's already chained, already beaten, and he literally charges at a guard who threatened his wife. This is a man who has spent his entire life following orders and being loyal to the state, and now that loyalty is being exploited to hurt him and his family. The internal conflict here is devastating: his sense of duty as a general vs. his duty as a son and husband. When he hesitates to kill the guards even while being beaten, that's not weakness — that's the tragedy of a good man in a corrupt system. Xiao Yunqing's stakes are different but equally real. He's risking his pride, which for a young man like him is basically his entire identity. His refusal to apologize to Cheng Lan isn't just stubbornness — it's the last thing he has that he can control. Everything else has been taken from him: his family's wealth, his status, his father's legacy. But his pride? That's his. And Cheng Lan — oh man, Cheng Lan. Her stakes are the highest and the most complex. She has the power to save everyone (spatial dimension, weapons, food), but she's also playing a long game. Every meal she distributes, every water skin she hands over, she's buying loyalty and testing her children. The conflict here isn't just external (Sun Tong, the guards) — it's internal to the family itself. Can she trust them? Can they trust her? The scene where she explicitly says 'the food and water are not to be shared with Second Brother' is a line in the sand. She's making a choice: protect the grateful ones and let the ungrateful suffer. The external threat from Sun Tong is visceral and immediate — he's physically violent, sexually threatening, and completely unchecked by any authority. But the real tension is whether Cheng Lan's calculated approach will work or whether her emotional distance will cost her the very family she's trying to save.
next chapter please ?
It's been weeks nd only like 5 chapters have been added....this stuff always ruins a good story cuz you loose interest in waiting nd get caught up on other books it's annoying
Hey woww, am Excited who is Samuel's dream girl. who is that girl who always come on his dream. is she Elena? hehe i think something is going to intersting. keep it up nice Starting.
update please
Nice book!!!, can't wait to see what happens next!
love this story
great book! Just wish we got to read about Ryan's bedroom time ?
Great story!
this novel is very interesting to read every day and you can enjoy
I laughed so hard I ... my pants. A refreshing read. Enjoyed it very much.
Tyler is evil I must say... she almost lost her f**king life coz of him and he doesn’t care??!