Never to Find Her Again

Ever since I was little, I knew that one day I was meant to become the Third Madam of the Xie Family. Xie Shenzhi worshipped the Buddha, so at an age when other girls were flying kites and playing on swings, I spent my days in the prayer hall chanting sutras. Xie Shenzhi practiced martial arts and liked women with unyielding temperaments. For his sake, I learned to ride. I broke my leg in a fall and did not shed a single tear. I did everything I could to become the kind of person he liked. Yet he fell in love with a girl who was the complete opposite of me. The engagement could not be canceled, so I turned around and married his eldest brother, a man known for his ruthless, iron-fisted methods. After the wedding, Xie Family’s First Young Master was just as the rumors said: he kept his distance from women. Only once, when Xie Shenzhi, drunk, blocked my doorway late at night, Xie Wangzhi shielded me behind him. He looked at this youngest brother of his with an utterly indifferent gaze and spoke coldly. “She is now the First Madam of the Xie Family. What business do you have seeking out your elder sister-in-law in the middle of the night?”