[Face-slapping]+ [Showing off]+ [Falling into the trap]
Betrayal + counterbetrayal, cheating + getting cheated on.
Testing + countertesting, stalking + counterstalking.
No matter how you transmigrate, you can’t escape morality and conscience.
Their marriage seems utterly ordinary, yet turbulent currents lie beneath the surface.
Their marriage feels like an act, but to everyone else, they look like a loving couple.
How he sees her:
[1] The seductive charms of a vixen in a 2000s workplace CEO romance,
[2] The bewitching tricks of a fox spirit in an ’80s story,
[3] The soul-enchanting magic of a fox in a Republican-era tale,
[4] A heart like Pan Jinlian’s in a Three Kingdoms card game.
How she sees him:
[1] A domineering, unfaithful CEO from the 2000s.
[2] An ’80s-era faithless lover,
[3] A Republican-era master with three wives and four concubines,
[4] The farmer from the Pan Jinlian and Ximen Qing story in a Three Kingdoms card game.
She was a thousand-year-old fox spirit who entered the mortal world intending to break up a marriage and aid her cultivation. But the game turned on her, and she became entangled in a marital trap of pretense and calculated moves. As “falling into the trap” and “face-slapping” take turns playing out, this encounter, which began as a scheme, will ultimately be decided in a battle between conscience and desire.
