My name is Pan Jinlian.
When I was twelve, I sold myself for thirty taels of silver. That day, I understood that my life was worthless, but my face was worth something.
Later, my mistress, hoping to humiliate me, married me off like she was dumping slops, to the ugliest, most spineless man in Qinghe County, a “three-inch nail.” On our wedding night, as I looked at his nauseating face, the last shred of decency in my heart died.
If this world won't let me live an honorable life, then I'll become the most alluring, most venomous ghost in Qinghe County.
I pushed open that window, even though an abyss lay beyond it. I used Ximen Qing's greed to climb out of the mire; with a bowl of arsenic, I sent off the husband who disgusted me. I thought I had won. I thought I had finally trampled fate beneath my feet.
Until the day the snow fell thickly, and the tiger-slaying man returned with a steel saber in his hand. He looked at me as if I were prey doomed to die.
In this life, I have slept with the powerful, killed my husband, and fought the wealthy and influential. I'm not afraid of going to hell. I'm only afraid that, before I die, I'll see my own filthy reflection in those eyes, cold as stars.
This is a desperate struggle between desire, destruction, and fate. I am Pan Jinlian. This is my story.
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