In modern times, Jing Wu was born into a comfortable family and grew up cherished by her parents. Just after graduating from college, she met a boyfriend who pretended to be rich. He built a prison of guilt with his “I’ve been so good to you,” and after three years together, she married him.
After the wedding, the truth came out: her husband had nothing and was drowning in debt. Feeling sorry for how hard it was for him to start a business, Jing Wu borrowed money from her family to help him. But this man, who had nothing going for him but a need to control and an appetite for spending, trampled on her sincere affection time and again. At last, she saw clearly that a hopeless man would only drag her and her parents down. Branded “the first in the family to get divorced,” she still walked away without hesitation.
In ancient times, Jing Wu also had parents who loved her dearly. When a merchant pretending to be kind asked for her hand, claiming it was love at first sight, her parents were taken in by appearances and sent their talented, beautiful daughter straight into a tiger’s den.
The scumbag married her only to change his fate: she had a good family background and great talent, but their hearts were not in harmony. When she refused his advances, he took concubines to humiliate her. When he couldn’t possess her, he plotted to seize her family’s wealth. Jing Wu had planned to turn a blind eye and preserve both families’ dignity, until she discovered that her husband had used his business dealings as a pretext to swindle her parents out of everything they owned. Worse, he and his concubine had conspired to poison her and then kill her whole family, so he could swallow up the entire Jing family estate.
Two timelines, one Jing Wu. They wear the faces of delicate, helpless flowers, but hold fast to boundaries that must never be crossed. When the scumbags bare their fangs, one tears open a path to a new life through divorce, while the other prepares her counterattack amid a web of schemes. Everyone thinks they’re weak and easy to bully. Little do they know that true strength lies within the flesh, unseen yet unbreakable.
