Chapter 1 First Encounter

[Jingcheng, the first and most prominent aristocratic family, Huo Family.]

In the dark cellar where one couldn't see their own hand, the intensifying scent of blood assaulted An Ge's senses. Before fear could completely engulf her, she was yanked forward by a powerful force. Strong arms pinned her onto the iron bed. He was on top, she was underneath. In mere seconds, An Ge was overwhelmed by the man's powerful masculine aura.

Amidst the sharp pain coursing through her body, she heard the man's cruel and vicious pronouncement, "You brought this upon yourself!" He drove into her with one deep thrust. An Ge's eyes widened to their limits from the pain. All she could do was resign to her fate.

She had fled to the Huo Family to escape her father and stepmother's scheme to sell her off. At Mrs. Huo's birthday banquet today, not only did her stepmother catch her, but she also drugged her heavily. An Ge managed to jump out of Second Master Huo's bed window only to accidentally stumble into this place.

Though she didn't know who the man chained in the cellar was, she knew she needed him. Otherwise, death was certain. Clinging to the man's toned waist, she said, "You're getting a freebie here, it's my first time."

"So is mine," the man's voice was clear and cold, like ice shattering on the ground, sending chills down her spine.

An Ge paused for a moment and asked, "What is it? Can't perform, or do you feel aggrieved?" But the only response she received was the man's relentless ferocity.

A long time later, she pushed away the man who seemed to have fainted on top of her and escaped. She had to flee. She couldn't let herself be disgraced, or her ailing mother wouldn't be able to withstand the blow, and she would be finished completely. [The Second Master Huo of the Huo Family] who was eyeing her covetously, would not let her go either.

By the time she escaped the Huo Mansion and returned to the An Residence, it was the middle of the night.

Simultaneously, someone entered the cellar.

"Young Master, are you feeling better now?"

Huo Shaoyan, after the affair, had a terribly hoarse voice. He said, "Find out who the woman that barged into the cellar tonight is. She will be the future Mrs. Huo."

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At this moment, the rain was pouring down. An Ge banged on the villa door.

"Open up, open up now. I want to see An Zhiguo. An Zhiguo, you better get out here. If you don't come out now, I will make your precious daughter, An Baoying, disgraced and ruined."

"You forced me to go to prison for her, and now that I've served my time, you have gone back on your word and refuse to treat my mother's illness. If anything happens to my mother, I will drag you all to hell with me."

Amidst the storm, An Ge's voice was broken and incoherent. But An Zhiguo and his current wife, feeling guilty, ordered the butler to open the door for her.

In the brightly lit living room, the moment An Ge stepped in, An Zhiguo raised his hand and slapped her across the face.

"You animal. I fed you, clothed you, and raised you this big, and this is how you repay me with disobedience and ungratefulness? What on earth are you? You dare to threaten your old man? Baoying is the money tree I and your Aunt Lan have painstakingly cultivated. She is destined to marry into the first noble family in Jingcheng as a young mistress.

You, raised by that country bumpkin mother of yours, are nothing but a lowly seed. You can't even read a word, so what's wrong with serving a year in prison in her place? Did it kill you?"

These utterly heartless words had been bombarding An Ge ever since she was released from prison a month ago, and she was sick of hearing them. Almost immediately after An Zhiguo's words faded, she looked at him with red eyes.

"Where's my mother? Where have you hidden her?"

Stepmother Bai Meilan stood up at this time, scolding, "An Ge, it's not that your Aunt Lan is scolding you, but you are too unruly and ignorant. Look at yourself, a village girl who has been to prison, what else do you have besides a pretty face?

I painstakingly arranged a marriage for you, asking you to marry Boss Wu. You ran away to the Huo Family to be a maid to resist the marriage. Isn't it disgraceful to refuse to be a lady boss, but instead you become a maid?"

As her words fell, An Zhiguo and Bai Meilan's daughter, An Baoying, came down the stairs. She wore silk pajamas, her face so beautiful that even the entertainment industry couldn't find another pure beauty like her.

After she came down, she asked in shock, "Sister, did you really sell yourself out of spite against Dad? Where did those hickeys and bite marks on your neck come from?"

With these words, the confused An Zhiguo then finally noticed the marks on An Ge's neck. Infuriated, he picked up a whip and lashed it towards An Ge.

"You wretched creature, just like your mother, at a young age you didn't learn good things and dared to sell yourself? Did you know, I was counting on your good looks and clean body to fetch a good price? In one night you turned into ruined goods, let's see if I don't beat you to death."

At the same time, Huo Shaoyan, the heir of the Huo Family, was leading his convoy powerfully toward the An Residence. He had already investigated the woman who stormed into the cellar and had relations with him tonight—it was An Family's daughter.

Huo Shaoyan was not in the habit of keeping mistresses, nor would he refuse to acknowledge a woman after the fact. There was only one outcome for women who were touched by him—

And that was to become his Mrs. Huo. Moreover, that woman had stirred him to an unimaginable frenzy!