Jiang Zhaozhao grew up with an old coroner and had dissected dozens of bodies by the time the Marquis's household found her and brought her back to marry her off in place of the fake heiress who had lived under her identity for over a decade.
Her groom is a sickly man who is both blind and lame, rumored to be a short-lived soul who won't live to see eighteen.
What the Marquis's household doesn't know is that his illness is a cover for his real identity. He has already joined a sect to pursue the Dao. He has returned only to use the pretense of marriage to kill the century-old ghost entrenched in the capital and settle his ties to the mortal world.
As for Jiang Zhaozhao, the bait, her fiance generously promises to reward her appropriately once the deed is done.
Jiang Zhaozhao: "Anything I want?"
Her fiance thinks that there is nothing in the mortal world that cultivators like them can't accomplish, so he smiles and agrees. "Anything you want."
Jiang Zhaozhao: "I want to join your sect and cultivate, so I can attain the Dao and ascend to immortality someday."
Her fiance: ?
And so Jiang Zhaozhao becomes an outer disciple of the Minghua Sect and begins her cultivation journey.
If fate lets you glimpse the path to immortality, why envy a pair of lovebirds when you can envy the immortals?
Theme: People should stand on their own feet and strive to be strong.
