This is great! Captivating!
Terrible book ! U all are liars commenting it was great ! It was the most horrible book I’ve read thus far ! I skipped the majority of this book to the end just ti see the outcome i cld not bear this book ugh
Holy shit ! How can he do that ! One good thing for him n he want to reject her ? I’m just torn here . I hope he realize there is more than the bond here ! Gosh author you are driving me crazy lol I love it !!!
Not sure why I can’t read the rest
Very nice and interesting
good story
Looking forward to the third book!!!!!!!!!!!!!
amazing.. .
please make them together...can't wait for their union
Cc Lopez that is not the question I am asking. I go back and read books over again. The fact that you put both books in the first one has Iocked all the chapters from the second book that I was HALF WAY through. So now I am unable to read the book again. To do something like that is unforgivable
should I continue reading this? not even interesting anymore.. she more become weak even in her rebirth..
The Zhao Yu storyline is where the real stakes live in this section, and I need to unpack why this teahouse scene is so much more dangerous than it appears. On the surface, it's a board game. Kids gambling silver, one guy winning too much, another guy getting angry. But read between the lines and this is a power struggle dressed up as entertainment. Ma Ronghuan isn't mad because he lost money—he's mad because Zhao Yu exposed him. Every round, Zhao Yu let these kids think they had a chance, and when Ma Ronghuan finally snapped and revealed his hand—'I hear you are to be expelled from the Academy next year'—that's when the real conflict started. Because Zhao Yu now knows exactly what Ma Ronghuan knows, and more importantly, he knows Ma Ronghuan is willing to use that information as a weapon. The stakes here are enormous and they're barely stated outright. Zhao Yu is already a marked man. Supervisor Zhu and Director Chao are watching his self-criticisms. His household is in a 'delicate state.' And Ma Ronghuan, son of the Minister of Revenue, just declared war on him in front of witnesses. But the most interesting conflict is the one happening in the background—the father-daughter tension between Shen and Mingtang. He thinks he's protecting her by steering her toward safe work. She's protecting him by hiding her real plans. Both are making choices for the other without consent, and both are doing it out of love. That's the kind of conflict that doesn't resolve with a dramatic confrontation—it simmers. And simmering is way more dangerous.