(A seemingly sweet, demure heiress and proper young lady vs. a domineering, foxlike young marshal and warlord)
Jiang Wantang is a gentle, refined young lady from a traditional family. She becomes the Cheng family's matriarch in place of her older sister, the original bride.
On their wedding night, her husband loudly proclaims his belief in freedom of marriage, then runs away overseas to study.
Jiang Wantang spends three years as a wife in name only. Three years later, her husband returns with a wealthy young woman educated abroad, intending to divorce his wife, marry the newcomer, and demote Jiang Wantang to concubine.
Has Jiang Wantang really spent all these years shouldering the entire Cheng family, only to be an obedient woman who works tirelessly and treats her husband as her whole world?
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Jiang Wantang hears that the newly arrived young Marshal Fu of Jiangcheng is ruthless, devious, and vicious, and does whatever he pleases.
She treats the stories about him as gossip, never imagining their paths would cross.
At Jiang Wantang's new home, her scumbag husband drones on outside while, behind a screen, a man pins her head and kisses her on the bed.
Fu Zheng breathes into her ear. “If you don't want to be found out, cooperate.”
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These two seem to have completely opposite temperaments and to have nothing whatsoever in common, yet one day, the newspapers announce their marriage.
Fu Zheng: “You wouldn't understand. A woman who's been married before knows how to care for a man.”
Jiang Wantang: “...Tonight, kneel beside the bed. You can't get up until five in the morning.”
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