Feisty, kind heroine VS gloomy, obsessive hero
Bai Qingxue, the prime minister's daughter, was raised in luxury. Feisty and overbearing, she could get whatever she wanted.
She had admired Gu Qingchen, heir to the Marquis of Yongyi, since childhood. To marry him, she would stop at nothing. She spread rumors all over the capital that she and Gu Qingchen had been intimate. To protect her reputation, Prime Minister Bai had no choice but to ask the emperor to arrange their marriage.
Gu Qingchen was forced to marry Bai Qingxue. When his beloved Su Yiyao found out, she hanged herself on their wedding day. Su Yiyao's death drove Gu Qingchen completely mad. He cut off Bai Qingxue's hands and feet and turned her into a human stump, keeping her at home to toy with.
Bai Qingxue was tortured to death, but after dying, she was reborn. She returned to the day she had forced Gu Qingchen to marry her. She hurriedly lifted her veil, jumped out of her bridal sedan, and ran to the Su residence, saving Su Yiyao just as she was about to hang herself.
This time, she would no longer act on a whim or obsess over marrying Gu Qingchen. All she wanted was to help Gu Qingchen and Su Yiyao be together.
Since the emperor had arranged the marriage, they could not defy his decree. They agreed to a marriage of convenience and planned to divorce a year later. But when the year was up, Gu Qingchen still refused to sign the divorce papers...
Premise: What you cannot have will always haunt you.
