[Feel-good power fantasy + Period setting + Not reborn + Face-slapping and scum-bashing + No self-sacrificing heroine + Monogamous romance]
After Qiao Xi's father dies unexpectedly, her mother takes her and her younger sister to the home of the man she's marrying for the second time.
Qiao Xi thinks she's finally found a warm home, but soon realizes it's no home at all. It's a den of danger.
Her stepfather has a violent temper, her step-grandmother is vicious and cruel, and her two stepbrothers are little devils.
Qiao Xi and her sister endure their beatings and abuse time and again, yet the family still despises them.
When the family decides to give her sister away for adoption, Qiao Xi begs and begs until her mother finally relents.
Her mother says, “Xixi, if you get married right now, I promise I won't give your sister away.”
Qiao Xi goes ahead and gets married.
What she doesn't know is that it's all a plot against her and her sister.
They plan to marry her off for the bride price, then sell her sister.
On the day her sister is sold, Qiao Xi happens to catch them in the act.
She fights desperately to keep her sister, but is beaten savagely.
After the beating, Qiao Xi realizes something may be wrong with her. Her memories keep going blank.
Thankfully, she manages to rescue her sister.
Just as she's planning to discuss moving to the city with her husband and taking her sister along, she discovers that he's been unfaithful.
She doesn't need a man! She can live just fine without one.
But a certain man who's hopelessly in love with her notices her strange behavior. It's as if she has two sides.
The gentle, quiet her?
The cold, prickly her?
What's wrong with her?
He wants to get to the bottom of it, but as he draws closer, he falls completely under her spell...
