Elowen Hale and Felix Sterling had loved each other for years. She devised stratagems and offered counsel for him, helping him rise to become the War God of Dongling. Yet Felix Sterling soon fell for Seraphina Hawthorne—a woman who put on an air of wild arrogance but was in truth reckless and witless.Heartbroken and disillusioned, Elowen Hale broke off her engagement to Felix Sterling without hesitation. After the separation, she uncovered two devastating truths: Felix Sterling had aided Seraphina Hawthorne in plotting harm against her elder brother Chu Xiaohe; furthermore, Felix Sterling was never the one who saved her life in their childhood—her true saviour was Silas Blackwood, the man who had persistently pursued her through all these years.Vowing to protect the Duke’s Manor, Elowen Hale no longer concealed her formidable martial arts skills. With masterful planning and strategic foresight, she brought ruinous consequences upon the faithless man and his vicious paramour. In the end, Elowen Hale was touched by Silas Blackwood’s unwavering sincerity and slowly opened her heart to him.
