Rou Wu was a gentle, delicate, and elegant noblewoman, born with a frail constitution.
Because her beauty was so breathtaking and her charm so bewitching, her family kept her hidden deep inside the inner quarters, afraid to let her appear in public.
At last, on her wedding day, a procession of splendid red wedding gifts stretched for miles. She was supposed to marry her cousin, the new top scorer in the imperial examinations.
But the Crown Prince, who had somehow caught sight of her, schemed to switch the bride and whisk her away to the Eastern Palace.
For the next ten years, he was madly infatuated with her and kept her imprisoned in the palm of his hand, hidden from the world in the deep palace. In the end, she died of sorrow at the age of twenty-six.
Later, people said that
the night she died, he set fire to the golden house he'd built for her and the peach grove he'd planted for her, stretching for miles. Then he walked into the flames and burned himself alive.
Even in death, he followed her.
Perhaps even Heaven could not bear to see such a beauty perish.
At the moment before her death, a lively voice rang out in Rou Wu's mind.
System: Sign a contract with me, and you can live forever.
Rou Wu, who had never seen the world beyond her home, was tempted. After hesitating for a long time, she agreed to the System's terms.
But she did not know
that her beauty was poison, and her charm bewitched every person she met, driving them into obsession and madness.
Everyone she met after that was just like the Crown Prince who had been madly infatuated with her. At their core, they were all lunatics.
A rabid dog who secretly coveted the delicate young lady, his eyes bloodshot.
A powerful official cousin who seemed refined and upright on the surface, but would do anything despicable behind the scenes to possess Rou Wu.
A younger brother she had rescued from the wilderness and raised herself, who repaid her kindness with betrayal, threatening the lives of the people to force her to marry him.
Every single one of them.
They greedily coveted her, loved her with wild obsession, and refused to let go even in death.
Their love was greedy.
Greed is a sickness.
[Blurb written on 2021/10/22]
Theme: No matter what you go through, never give up hope
