[Male rivalry] [1v2] [Love triangle] [Angst] [Anything goes]
Though born in a humble village, Lin Yuan was greedy for wealth and comfort from the start.
She urged her husband, Ao Jue, to join the army and earn glory on the battlefield, so she could live in comfort as a general's wife.
Later, a fellow villager who had enlisted with Ao Jue fled back to the village, bringing only a bloodstained scrap of his clothes.
Lin Yuan set up a tomb for his clothes, burned incense, and shed tears.
A few days later, she found another promising prospect: a scholar named Jiang Ciyue who was heading to the capital for the examinations.
Using her pretty face to entice him, she secretly pledged herself to Jiang Ciyue and told him to come back and marry her.
The scholar eventually placed on the imperial examination list and married her, making her an official's wife.
She lived an exceedingly wealthy life.
Who could have guessed that one day her supposedly dead ex-husband would return in triumph, covered in military glory?
He stormed into the residence with a knife in hand and demanded, "Do you want him, or do you want me?"
Jiang Ciyue had always known that his wife, Lin Yuan, had someone else in her heart.
But he didn't care. That person was dead, after all.
Later, that "dead man" came back.
He thought it seemed necessary to keep at it until the other man was truly dead.
Ao Jue had fought with all his might to crawl out of a pile of corpses, only to find that the woman he had longed for had married someone else.
He had intended to chop off that pretty boy's head.
But she cried and begged him to spare the other man.
In the end, Ao Jue couldn't bring himself to do it.
From then on, he could only watch from the shadows as she made love to another man.
Later, her nails, painted red, dug into that pretty boy's back.
And she called out his name.
Ao Jue.
Later, Ao Jue forced her, at banquets, in the woods, and in corners where no one could see them.
Gripping her by the waist, he made her call his name again and again.
Theme: Take the initiative and fight for what you want to build a beautiful future.