The Bottomless Desires of the Human World

Three thousand years passed, and Su Daji, burdened with the age-old slander of being a disastrous beauty, shed the dust of the palace walls of Chaoge and was reborn as a top art curator in modern-day Shanghai. With memories spanning a thousand years, she had seen through the rise and fall of the world and the greed of human nature. Cool, clear-minded, and uninterested in contention, she wanted only to lie low in peace and break free of fate's shackles. But her extraordinary beauty and penetrating insight made it impossible to escape worldly prejudice and the conflicts of high society.

The rich and powerful lived in luxury, surrounded by fame and fortune, yet most were spiritually barren and insatiably greedy. Once their basic needs were met, they turned to lust. They flaunted their power by keeping ambiguous companions and spreading erotic rumors, then blamed their own depravity and greed on beautiful women, repeating the absurd prejudice of a thousand years.

Lu Chenyuan, a corporate tycoon at the pinnacle of power and wealth, was an empty man who controlled everything. Cold, ruthless, and restrained, he nevertheless became fixated on Su Daji and willingly lost himself in her. As the cycle of fate quietly began anew, the two met in the glittering world of high society, drawn into a game of push and pull, balance and counterplay. Su Daji coldly tore away the hypocritical masks of the powerful, exposing the deeply rooted fallacy that beautiful women bring calamity upon the world. She broke through one trap after another, rewriting a thousand years of infamy and ultimately proving to the world: there has never been a bewitching consort who brought chaos to the land. The true source of all evil in the world is humanity's insatiable desire and the greed of all living things.

Theme: For a thousand years, people have blamed beauty and declared that bewitching consorts bring calamity. In truth, beauty is innocent, while greed becomes an abyss. This book tears away the hypocritical mask of society: there has never been a beauty who brought chaos to the land, only human hearts with desires that can never be satisfied. The so-called disastrous beauty has always been an excuse people use through the ages to hide their own spiritual barrenness and greed.