Beauty Unbound by the Wind

She is Su Yangu, once the most dazzling courtesan in the capital's pleasure quarters. Her brows were like distant mountains veiled in mist, her eyes like autumn pools lit with stars, and her figure so alluring it could set hearts aflutter: porcelain-smooth shoulders and neck, a slender willow waist, and, below it, suddenly generous, rounded curves. As she walked, her swaying skirts revealed a silhouette that tempted countless wealthy patrons to spend fortunes. But she trusted the impoverished scholar Xie Yanqing, spending every coin she had to help him pass the imperial examinations. In return, he joined forces with the powerful Zhao Chengyu and the famous courtesan Liu Qingmei to frame her. They forced her to drink poison and threw her corpse into a mass grave, where no one even gathered her bones. As blood-red shadows filled her vision, she was reborn at sixteen, back in the woodshed where she had first arrived at the pleasure quarters. Her body ached all over, but her eyes were clear. This time, she cast aside her innocence, leaving only ruthless resolve: earn enough silver to buy her freedom, and make everyone who betrayed her pay in blood. Love was nothing but a pastime, and she would never give her heart away again.