Ning Jiao had a betrothed from a childhood engagement. He was as handsome as Pan An and as talented as Cao Zhi, a renowned beauty in the capital.
Everyone said their engagement was like a flower stuck in a pile of cow dung.
And Ning Jiao was the cow dung.
She'd heard such remarks about how unworthy she was so often since childhood that she gradually grew numb to them.
One day, her betrothed, now a lovestruck young man, told her he could marry her despite her being dark, fat, and ugly, but after they married, she couldn't stop him from taking concubines.
They weren't even married yet, and her betrothed had come to her house to insult her and announce he wanted concubines. Ning Jiao cried in anger, shoved him over, and ran away.
All men were faithless. Ning Jiao planned to follow the heroine of a storybook, take a pair of scissors to her hair, and sever her ties to love. But she accidentally cut her hand and opened the ancestral jade bangle, revealing a beauty handbook inside...
From then on, Ning Jiao began the difficult journey of emerging from her cocoon. She transformed from plain and ugly to the most beautiful woman in the capital, and from merely passable in her studies to a polymath, proficient in music, chess, calligraphy, and painting...
All so that one day, when she broke off her engagement with the man who had looked down on her, everyone would know that she was the one who didn't want him!
Male lead's blurb: Cui Yan had been handsome since childhood, but his betrothed was dark and ugly.
As he grew into a lovestruck young man, he gradually couldn't bear the teasing from those around him. In a moment of impulse, he told his betrothed he wanted to take concubines...
His betrothed ran off in tears. He felt guilty and reflected on his actions... After returning from his travels to study, he had matured and fully understood his mistake, so he decided to visit her and apologize.
He also wanted to tell her he didn't mind anymore.
However, he never expected his betrothed to have become beautiful... So stunning she took everyone's breath away. And she wanted to break off their engagement!
A young man who loves pretty faces gets his comeuppance and has to win his wife back × a sweet, willful heroine who works hard to live for herself and is breathtakingly beautiful in this wish-fulfillment story
Reading notes: 1. The heroine has a golden finger.
2. A satisfying, wish-fulfillment story. The heroine is adored by everyone.
3. The male lead was obsessed with beauty when he was young.
Theme: Live for yourself and let life shine.