They say Bai Xingyue is ugly, ill-tempered, and terrible at martial arts, the most notorious good-for-nothing in Qingcheng. Even her fiancé looks down on her. At her matchmaking contest, someone asks her, “Dare to show your real face?”
Bai Xingyue: “I’m not ugly. I’m the most beautiful woman in the world.”
She removes her veil, stunning everyone.
An adorable child comes to claim her: “You look just like the mother in the painting!”
Bai Xingyue: “Don’t make things up. When did I ever have a kid this old?”
The child’s father: “You don’t just look like her. You are her!”
Bai Xingyue is stunned: “I never abandoned a husband and child!”
Right there, the child’s father strips off her clothes to find proof...
On their wedding day.
Bai Xingyue sits stiffly in her wedding dress. The child’s father sits just as stiffly.
Then the candles burn down, and he still hasn’t moved.
Bai Xingyue: “It’s our wedding night. Aren’t you going to sleep?”
The child’s father: “You haven’t agreed, so I don’t dare.”
Bai Xingyue: “...You didn’t ask for my permission when you stripped me at my matchmaking contest.”
The child’s father: “So you’re saying I can keep being this overbearing and calling the shots in situations like that?”
Bai Xingyue: “What else? Am I supposed to make the first move?”
The child’s father leans over and pins her down: “No need. A husband should be the one to assert his authority...”