This Bandit Is Kind of Sweet

[This is an early work, and the writing isn't very good. Please go easy on me.] Blurb: After ten years of hard study, he finally passes the imperial exams. He is promoted to consort in the imperial hall, while his sweetheart from childhood is taken as a concubine. So is Lin Jingshi, his wife married in a formal ceremony before Heaven and Earth, destined to be denied even a name of her own? What is she, then? A discarded wife? A wicked woman? A tyrannical landowner? She's the daughter of the wealthiest merchant in Jiangnan, yet she falls in love with a poor scholar? They vowed to share honor and disgrace when they married, but the moment her husband passes the exams, he kicks her to the curb? When she was ten, a fortune-teller at the City God Temple said she was destined to be the wife of a top scholar. How did she end up marrying this bandit chief by some twist of fate? The truth is, getting involved with a rotten man is a real pain in the neck. And it turns out that unless a woman is ruthless, her position will never be secure. Lin Jingshi stamps her left foot and points at the sky with her right hand, vowing to take revenge, tear the mistress apart, beat the scumbag, meet a better man, marry a big shot, lean on a mountain of gold, live in splendor, dominate the region, make the mistress surrender, and have the scumbag come crawling back, hoping to rekindle their old romance... Lin Jingshi just hugs her dashing bandit chief and says with a beaming smile, "Go to hell." Core idea: