Peace and Prosperity Year After Year

Sui Sui got married. The marriage was far from honorable, but the groom was the man she'd loved for over a decade.

Everyone in the household said she had no shame, that she'd stolen her elder sister's marriage and was a fickle woman.

Her husband heard them and never once defended her, even though he knew she wasn't like that.

Sui Sui thought he simply hadn't discovered her good qualities yet. After the wedding, she devoted herself day after day to serving her husband and mother-in-law, doing her best to take care of everything.

Aside from their marital relations, he never stayed the night. He treated her roughly and casually, and Sui Sui thought he had always been as aloof and proud as snow-covered pines.

That was until she saw the Marquis of Xuanping's household fall into ruin, and watched him eagerly bring her elder sister into the home. Beneath the flowers and moonlight, beside the willow branches, her husband wore a tenderness she'd never once received.

He told her to know her place and follow the rules, and not to bring her old ways into the household.

Sui Sui smiled and agreed to everything, but this time her heart felt as if it were being torn apart. She wiped away the tears at the corner of her eye and decided she would stop loving him.

Because of a plot involving an intimate encounter, the upright Wen family had no choice but to marry off their youngest daughter to the Yan family, even though they had originally been considering the eldest daughter, whose beauty was renowned throughout the capital.

Wen Yubai had always believed that beneath Sui Sui's pretty face lay a scheming, filthy heart, willing to plot against her elder sister's marriage for her own benefit.

He told her to know her place, follow the rules, and do her duty. She did everything he asked. For some reason, she didn't seem as awful as he'd thought. If she became a little more sensible, perhaps he could even give her a child or two.

It wasn't until later, when he wanted to start over and live happily with her, that he saw his wife, hair neatly pinned, laughing in another man's arms. Only then did he realize how dazzlingly beautiful his wife was, and that he was the one who couldn't live without her.

#"Wen Yubai, I don't love you anymore."#

Theme: To be decided: finding myself in adversity