You hate that treacherous officials hold sway at court. You hate that Chancellor Shang destroyed your entire family. You hate how rotten the capital has become...
But your family has been wiped out, your benefactor murdered, your child gravely ill, and the person you love missing. You can do nothing about it, and have even been forced to become a government courtesan.
At the moment you fell into hell, you caught hold of a ray of light, never expecting it to be the very man who killed your father!
“This Chancellor will pay thirty thousand taels for one night with you. What do you say?”
“This Chancellor will come marry you tomorrow morning.”
“This Chancellor is the child’s father.”
When the tiger leaves the mountain, even a dog can bully it. You bowed your head to the dogs. At last, the one you love returned victorious, only to shove you away in disgust.
“I risked my life on the battlefield and fought to survive just so I could come back and marry you, yet you couldn’t wait and married someone else. You even got my grandmother killed. You shameless, wicked woman!”
You can’t defend yourself, and can only lament that everyone you’ve ever met in this life has been the wrong person.
If that’s how it is, then instead of taking your own life, drag them all into hell with your own hands, then climb out over their corpses!
The powerful ministers of the court, the generals who defend the country, they’re all just men at your feet, stepping stones on your way up.
