Lianqiao was a respectable young woman from Jiangnan. When she was seventeen, she believed a scoundrel's lies and willingly became his concubine. It wasn't until he tried to sell her that she realized how foolish she'd been. But by then, it was too late for regrets.
Though fate dealt her a cruel hand, Lianqiao refused to give up. Though her worldview was bizarre, she refused to be changed. When she was sold to the poor borderlands, she ran away. In the end, this absurd world drove Lianqiao from a cheerful, innocent girl into a villainous queen of the underworld.
The heroine is a scoundrel collector and gets married several times. Please don't read if that's not for you.