For five years, he kept me waiting as his ghost bride, marrying my empty coffin and memorial tablet while pining for me alone. I faked my death and changed my identity to save my family, only to accidentally seduce a cold-faced general. Who could have known that the rugged war god I'd been shamelessly flirting with was the very fiancé who had insisted on marrying my memorial tablet?
Before her wedding, Jiang Qitang thought her cousin, whom she regarded as a brother, had schemed to violate her.
When she woke and saw the person beside her, then looked at her own disheveled state, a boundless hatred swept through her.
Ignoring his bitter remorse and confessions of love, she threw him into Yunze Lake to feed the fish!
The next day, word spread through the Jiang family that their legitimate daughter, Jiang Qitang, had accidentally fallen into the water and died.
Who would have thought her fiancé would insist on marrying her memorial tablet? The Jiang family assumed he was so mad with greed that he wanted to seize their property!
After the seven-day mourning period, her father made a grand show of bringing home the son born to his concubine, intending to take over the vast Jiangnan silk business.
From then on, Jiang Qitang erased her identity as a woman and passed herself off as a man in the business world, taking on the Jiang family's largest silk shop in Jiangnan despite her seemingly frail appearance.
She had thought her cousin's schemes were the worst evil in the world. But amid the ruthless infighting of the business world, where everyone plotted against one another for profit, she truly saw how terrifying human nature and how cold the world could be.
Then her family fell into crisis, and a powerful general arrived in Lin'an.
She resumed her identity as a woman and tried to seduce him with her looks. But how could she have known that this burly, rough, unkempt general was the young fiancé who had insisted on carrying away her empty coffin and marrying her memorial tablet?
As the man watched her flirt with him and use every wile at her disposal, he was overcome with joy. Only after he had finally had his way with her did he tell her he was her husband!