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Guan Yu dreamed that the Sage had ordered her entire family wiped out, and after she died, her soul became a wisp trapped inside a jade pendant.
She spent decades drifting through the mortal world.
The pendant's owner, who had lain low for years, finally seized his chance to rise to power, overturn the court, and clear his family's name.
Just when she thought Heaven had taken pity on her and was rejoicing, an arrow shot from the shadows pierced the pendant she inhabited, and she met her end.
When she woke, Guan Yu clutched her aching chest and cursed, "Damn Heaven! How dare you toy with me!"
To escape the fear of being pierced by an arrow, Guan Yu decided to find the one true golden thigh she could cling to!
As the saying goes, you must say goodbye to the wrong one before you can embrace the right one.
First, she politely turned down her former flame, the ill-read and insufferably arrogant Crown Prince.
Then she rejected the new top scholar, a simple-born young man handpicked by her father.
Finally, she personally showed the matchmaker from the family of the Left Vice Director of the Chancellery the door.
Well!
Her golden thigh had yet to appear, and already she had earned a "fine reputation" in Chang'an as a woman who had been jilted three times and brought misfortune to her husbands.
Fortunately, Heaven took pity on this determined woman and finally sent a frail-bodied legitimate son of a marquis's household her way, a man who met all of Guan Yu's requirements.
With a wise person's guidance, Guan Yu relied on her beauty to get away with all manner of mischief. She made rapid progress and finally latched onto this shining golden thigh.
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The Sage's suspicion had left the marquis's household in decline.
After the whole family discussed and agreed on a plan, their third son, handsome, wealthy, fit, and single, became their unanimous choice to woo Chang'an's famous rich beauty and secure her support.
Rong Yu clutched the weighty volume of The Classic of Manly Virtue and spat blood for half an hour. After a long silence, he could only conclude that being the legitimate son of the marquis's household was no easy task.
It was exhausting!
Not only did he have to sacrifice his good looks to restore the family business, he also had to teach this beautiful idiot, who had not a shred of a lovestruck heart, how to pursue him.
"I'm teaching you to cater to someone's preferences. Do I look like someone who'd be into this?"
#A love story between a scheming hypocrite and a seemingly plain-water but actually sweet-drink straight woman, each clinging to the other's golden thigh#
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Theme: Food heals life