The outskirts of the Imperial Capital were frozen solid beneath the snow.
In the desolate Ice Lake, which looked like a gigantic ice coffin, a stunningly beautiful young woman lay submerged!
"Big Sis, aren't you cold?"
"Big Sis, it's forty-five degrees below zero. You'll freeze to death."
"If you die, how will you compete in the National Medical Competition..."
A gentle voice drifted down from above.
Thoughtful and concerned.
Beneath the Ice Lake.
Qin Xin endured the hellish cold and the excruciating pain of her spine breaking one vertebra at a time. She stretched out a porcelain-white wrist and knocked on the thick ice, pleading for help.
But—
The next second!
"Big Sis, stop struggling."
"I heard that people who freeze to death get covered in frostbite, and their skin turns green. It's called cadaveric lividity. It's so ugly."
"Brother Jun has always thought you were a stuck-up phony, with that cold, unfeminine face. Now he finds you even more disgusting."
"Big Sis, just stay in this ice coffin and wait for the good news that I'm marrying Brother Jun. Hehe!"
That gentle voice now sounded like a poison-coated blade. Each sentence made the girl beneath the Ice Lake ache with tears, showing her the most unbearable side of life.
This was Qin Wenrou, the younger sister Qin Xin had doted on for more than a decade!
To cure her frail younger sister, she had given up the astrophysics she loved to study the dull, difficult field of medicine. Since childhood, she had worked desperately to earn money for the most expensive supplements and medicine for Qin Wenrou, and had done everything she could to help her get through high school and into college. And the result??
Qin Wenrou had ambushed her, pushed her into the Ice Lake, and stolen her boyfriend??
Was she cursed with the worst luck in the world?
Immersed in the Ice Lake, Qin Xin glared toward the shore, wanting only to ask, Did a dog chew up your conscience?!
But... something didn't add up.
If Qin Wenrou had killed her to steal her man, why was she drawing her blood?
Was Qin Wenrou going to swap their blood so she could become a genius overnight?
Hah, a blood transfusion isn't a brain transplant!
As the cold gradually robbed Qin Xin of consciousness, she felt her porcelain-white wrist being clamped in place by iron pincers. All the blood in her body was drained through a thick, black tube...
Was she really going to die just like this?
She couldn't accept it!
She had poured her life's work into an ungrateful wretch of a sister. She couldn't accept it!
Her boyfriend had despised her and betrayed her, making her look like a complete fool. She couldn't accept it!
She was the Qin Family's once-in-a-century genius, yet she had been left to freeze to death inside an ice coffin. She couldn't accept it!
Why should she die while those scumbags got to live in comfort?!
Her blood drained away, little by little.
Her soul slipped away from her body, little by little.
Faintly, she heard the deep sigh of an unfamiliar man beside her—
"Is she dead?"
Cold...
So cold...!
Qin Xin shuddered all over and suddenly opened her eyes.
Everything around her was white, as if she were in heaven.
Hehe, a foolhardy good person like me was obviously bound for heaven.
But now I'd rather be a wicked person in hell, one who settled every score and took revenge for every slight, and told scumbags and men alike to get lost!
"Little Miss... May the gods protect you! You can't die, waah! If you die, Young Master Jue will throw me into the snake pit and lock me up in the wolves' den..."
A whimpering cry came from beside the bed.
Qin Xin furrowed her brows.
What Little Miss?
What Young Master Jue?
What kind of idiot was this man, so vicious he'd throw people into snake pits and lock them up in wolves' dens at the drop of a hat?
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