An elderly couple from the Shangguan family are always arguing.
Shangguan Lingnian often hears her father say, "If you hate me so much, why did you marry me in the first place?"
Then her mother replies, "Because I wanted to marry you and make your life miserable forever."
Eight-year-old Shangguan Lingnian doesn't quite understand. So if you hate someone, you marry him and make his life miserable forever~
Later, she meets someone she finds incredibly, incredibly, incredibly annoying.
He's extraordinarily handsome, but his mouth is as poisonous as they come, and he has no manners to boot.
On the very first day they meet, he badmouths her brother right in front of her.
After that, he steals the fine horse she's had her eye on and tricks her into drinking. He's really not a good person.
Shangguan Lingnian writes down every single one of these offenses in a little notebook.
At a banquet, the elders are charmed by how cute and fair Shangguan Lingnian is, and jokingly ask what kind of man she wants to marry when she grows up.
The little girl, not knowing her place, declares, "I want to marry Guan Cong and spend my whole life with him."
Her parents, who dote on their daughter like the apple of their eye, assume she has taken a liking to Guan Cong. They personally visit the Guan family and arrange a betrothal for the children.
Before long, the wedding day arrives.
With her "ledger" in her arms and joy in her heart, Shangguan Lingnian climbs into the bridal sedan.
On their wedding night, when a newlywed couple should be enjoying their first night together, the spoiled young master instead produces a divorce agreement, smiling broadly. "I know you didn't marry me out of genuine affection. The elders took a childhood joke seriously. My future is uncertain, so I won't hold you back."
The next day, he leads his troops to the border.
Shangguan Lingnian turns it over and over in her mind, unable to accept it. She kept track of all those grievances for years, and now he's just gotten away?
No way. She's going to collect what she's owed. When the time comes, whoever refuses to divorce is a dog.
Later, the new bride of the Guan family sets off for the northwest with that divorce agreement in hand, going to collect her debt.
Theme: Let out your bad moods