In her dreams, her own parents abandon her, her legitimate elder sister hunts her down, and her former fiancé and childhood friend conspire to trick her into a brothel. After she contracts a body full of filthy diseases, her own elder brother throws her into a mass grave. In the end, wild dogs and eagles tear her apart alive, leaving no body behind.
Qu Ruoli goes from legitimate daughter to concubine-born daughter in a single day.
From then on, her former fiancé becomes her brother-in-law.
Unable to escape her grief, she is warmed by her childhood friend, who slowly pulls her out of the abyss.
But later, her childhood friend decides to marry someone else as his principal wife,
while she is only fit to be a concubine.
Unwilling to suffer such humiliation, she tries to go home, only to find that she has merely gone from one hell to another. Where does she even have a home?
After severing ties with the Marquis's household,
she resolutely heads for the border and buys a dead city beyond anyone's jurisdiction.
From then on, she is simply Qu Ruoli. A man isn't a necessity in her life, just a diversion.
When the nation falls, her former fiancé, childhood friend, birth parents,
and elder brother come seeking refuge,
only then do they discover that the person who could protect them has risen beyond their reach!
