In a fictional world where men outrank women, Zhou Yunli, born in the countryside, should have grown up like countless other girls, married, and had children. But one day, she suddenly began to doubt the future she could see laid out before her. It was as if a voice had appeared in her mind, telling her that things weren't supposed to be this way, that she should find love freely and bravely pursue it. For instance, when she met a scholar, her mind went: A wise bird chooses its tree. The Lin family has postponed the wedding, so why not break off the engagement and get together with this handsome young scholar? He'll be the top scholar in the imperial examinations someday! Zhou Yunli thought she must have lost her mind to have thoughts like that. Didn't everyone just make do with an arranged marriage and spend their lives together? So she married into the Lin family, to whom she was already betrothed. She knew her husband loved someone else and had no feelings for her, but he still married her and raised children with her. Her younger sister-in-law was also an idiot who made a fuss all day long. What else could she do? She'd just have to make the best of it. Who could really find love these days?
Wait a minute, sister! If there's no love, why get married? If we have to, can't we follow the script for a marriage that turns into love? As it turns out, falling in love after marriage really doesn't work. Free love is the way to go.
Message: May this love not fall into the commonplace and bow to reality.
I like Li Ziqing and hope that he and the heroine will live an ordinary life in the future. Li Ziqing will take the exam and become a clerk in the county government. When the heroine gets married, he will embroider to support the family.