Cui Wei is betrothed to Wang Xun, the new top scholar in the imperial examinations. The two families are well-matched and are waiting for the right time.
At the flower viewing party, her aunt and niece were jealous of her marriage and planned to wet her clothes, causing her foreign man to break in while she was changing. The Wang family broke off their engagement, and Cui Wei refused to fill a house or move into an empty house, and lived in seclusion.
At the summer banquet three months later, Cui Wei slapped his cousin three times in public, poured a cup of tea, and smiled: "It's rude to come and not return." The whole house was in an uproar, scolding her for showing up, being domineering and rude. She gathered her clothes and stood up, neither humble nor arrogant: "You all claim to be famous, but are you just like the shrews in the market gossiping and spreading rumors?" The whole audience was silent.
When Wang Xun broke off the engagement, he argued hard, but gave up when his mother threatened to die. Seeing her making a loud noise at this moment, my heart suddenly trembled. Since then, Cui Wei has repeatedly shown kindness, but Cui Wei has been indifferent. He even said bluntly: "Wang Langjun knew that I was innocent, but he broke off the engagement because of rumors. He is not strong-willed and is not my lover."
One day, she was sitting across from a scholar in a teahouse, smiling brightly. Wang Xun felt regretful that she should have smiled at him like that. Wang Xun was determined to marry her at all costs. Unexpectedly, his wish was not fulfilled. He was involved in a bribery case and demoted from official position. He watched helplessly as she married away from Jiangnan.
The officialdom was ups and downs, and he dreamed back at midnight. She was a fantasy that he couldn't ask for.
Seven years later, officials and gangsters colluded, and her husband was falsely accused and imprisoned. Cui Wei was desperate and asked to go to the governor's office.
Wang Xun was condescending, his eyes dark and hard to distinguish: "Ms. Cui, are you so stubborn when asking for help?"
Intention: self-reliance