[A ruthless, calculating orphaned loyalist vs. a cold young general from next door]
Note: The heroine isn't perfect, and the hero is no saint either.
Meng Jinqiao's life can be summed up in two sentences. Her first half was smooth sailing, bright and carefree; in her second, her parents died, she trusted the wrong man, and she was unjustly killed.
At the gates of the underworld, one step forward would have brought her a wealthy next life. Instead, she turned back and offered up all her future lifetimes for the chance to beat the grievance drum outside the King of Hell's palace.
"I am Meng Jinqiao, a humble woman. I wish to bring charges against Gu Yuan, heir to the Prince of Su of the Yong Kingdom, for favoring his concubine over his wife, seizing my family's ancestral estate, and luring my own child into poisoning his birth mother!"
"I want him to suffer for his evil deeds, never to know a good death for all eternity, and to be cast into the animal realm whenever he is reborn, never again to live as a human!"
Reborn, she wakes after her parents' deaths. When her scumbag ex-husband appears before her again, ready to take her back to his home and fulfill their marriage contract, she turns on her heel and hurries to the door of her childhood friend next door.
"Brother," she calls Zhou Xu, just as she did when they were children. "Please, save me..."
Zhou Xu looks at her. After a moment's silence, he strokes her long hair. "Why ask? Huanhuan, you should know that whenever you turn back, your brother will be right here."
