Mu Zhizhi, a young lady from a respectable family, fell into hardship after a sudden upheaval and became a country girl. Every day she did the hardest labor and endured the most vicious scolding. At thirteen, she was only as tall as an average ten-year-old.
Though her family tried their best to hide the truth, she still remembered her parents from those days, as well as Qin Qian, her childhood sweetheart, to whom she had been promised in marriage.
So Mu Zhizhi endured all the unfair treatment, just so that when she grew up, she could return to her blood relatives.
At fifteen, Mu Zhizhi was found by a prince who had come to look for his second son, and was brought back to the capital. Only then did she learn that the dirty little boy who had often followed her around calling her "big sister" was Qin Qian's younger brother.
Mu Zhizhi got her wish. She saw Qin Qian, her parents, and her elder sister, and returned to the home she had yearned for day and night.
She thought life would return to normal. She would continue to be cherished by her family, then marry Qin Qian in a grand wedding at eighteen and live a happy life.
But in the ten years Mu Zhizhi had been away, someone else had completely taken her place: a girl who resembled her, but had grown even more beautiful.
Compared with the thin, scrawny Mu Zhizhi, Fang Qingran was the one who looked like a true young lady from a noble family.
Her parents and elder sister no longer doted on her. Even Qin Qian, who had been so good to her as a child, chose Fang Qingran and married her as his principal consort.
The crushing sense of being left behind, after enduring so much hardship, shattered Mu Zhizhi's defenses. All she could do was vent her sense of injustice with brute force.
She ignored Qin Yu's devotion and insisted on marrying his older brother, Qin Qian, as a concubine, even if it meant risking her life.
After the wedding, she was treated as if she did not exist. She endured several years of misery before dying young of illness, her life ending wrapped in a straw mat.
When reborn, Mu Zhizhi opened her eyes to find herself in the second year of her marriage. This time, she did not throw tantrums or act insane. Instead, she became gentle and considerate, winning Qin Qian's heart, then slapped a divorce decree in his face.
She made no effort to hide the disdain in her eyes.
"I'm tired of you. Let's get divorced."
A concubine divorcing her husband was a crime against the ages, and gossip ruined Mu Zhizhi's reputation.
But who could have guessed that she would turn around and marry her ex-husband's younger brother? On the wedding day, a ten-mile procession of dowry chests and the thunder of gongs and drums caused a sensation throughout the capital.
Theme: Cherish the person in front of you.
