"Madam, you don't want to be treated as a Furnace Cauldron whose life is in constant danger, do you?"
His warm breath on her ear sent an involuntary shiver through Madam Yang, a tingling numbness spreading from head to toe. But it was Chen Sheng's low voice that startled her fully awake, her pupils shrinking in an instant.
"You... How could you know... all this?"
Madam Yang's eyes were filled with horror and disbelief.
She had never told anyone that she was being used as a Furnace Cauldron, or that Lin Shou preferred the company of men.
The first secret was to avoid implicating her family. Lin Shou had warned her that if she dared breathe a word to any outsider, his powerful backer would effortlessly annihilate the Yang Family.
That was precisely why she didn't dare to resist, resigning herself to silent suffering.
No matter how much resentment festered within her, she could only bury it deep in her heart.
