After I Got Out of Prison, They All Knelt and Begged for My Forgiveness

No competing for a man, no tired tropes, no forgiveness.

A heroine who only wants to use men to build her career and has no interest in romance vs. a hopeless romantic male supporting character who rises to become the hero.

At her engagement ceremony, Su Xianjun is beaten by her younger brother. Her fiancé, who should have been standing by her side, merely says, “You’re truly wicked.” Later, their beloved first love dies, and Su Xianjun is sent to prison by the older brother who doted on her and the fiancé who claimed to love her. She is tortured there for five years. In prison, she is violated, and others trample her dignity and pride underfoot.

Five years later, she gets out. Everyone is waiting to laugh at her, eager to stamp on this mud-spattered red rose.

They all wager on how Lord Gu, Gu Zhoucheng, will continue to torment her.

But a rose is still a rose. Though it falls into the mud and is ground to dust, its fragrance remains as before.

Su Xianjun fights her way out of hell, sees men for what they are, and wants only to build her career while making everyone who owes her pay in full.

So many people still love her. No matter how bloody the road ahead, she is willing to cut through every obstacle for their sake.

1. This is a “chasing the wife to the crematorium” story, but he never manages to win her back.

2. The heroine suffers a little early on; in the middle, she focuses on her career; later, the hero and male supporting characters suffer, with their ashes scattered to the wind.

3. The male supporting character rises to become the hero. He is emotionally and physically untouched, a hopeless romantic, and the heroine is X.

4. Gu Zhoucheng has a major role and is practically half the hero. The other half of the hero’s role gets stolen by the lovesick male supporting character, who pries it away with a hoe. So this story definitely has a bad ending.

This story could also be called “Everyone Except the Hero Is Seriously Building a Career.”