Debt in a Gilded Cage

The personal disciple of the infamous Lihèn Pavilion, Gu Yanchi—whose very name sent chills through the martial world—was put up for auction in the dark market like a rare commodity. Her proud spirit remained unbroken, her eyes still burning with an unyielding defiance that refused to die out. But the mysterious buyer who won her, Pei Shuo, proved to be a man of violent and unpredictable temperament. He fastened a high-voltage shock ring and collar around her neck, yet housed her in a palatial mansion. Like a demonic figure and an unsolvable riddle wrapped into one, he branded her chest with a mark of humiliation, only to shriek and lose all composure moments later at the sight of a cockroach. Gu Yanchi scrambled to survive in the thin sliver of space between terror and disgrace, yet she found herself growing ever more unable to read the man who had purchased her entire life—until the day he casually returned from a brothel, and the sensation in her chest mysteriously flooded back...