Cold-faced, unhinged heroine vs. sweet, naive, love-addled playboy
The Ji family doesn't like Ning Xi. In their eyes, everything she does is scheming. Her parents look down on her and criticize her at every turn. Even the servants give her dirty looks, treating her with contempt and mockery.
After dying once, Ning Xi sees things clearly. She's done caring about anything. What parents? What family? She wants none of it! This time, she'll live only for herself.
Jiang Fei was raised in the Ji household from childhood. When the Ji family's biological daughter returned, she was terrified, worried the other girl would take away everything she had.
Though she knew she had the pampered favorite's role and her older sister was merely the second female lead, blood was still thicker than water.
Fortunately, everyone in the Ji family continued to dote on her. Between her and her sister, they always chose her side.
At last, she felt at ease. Sometimes, when she saw her sister throwing the household into chaos out of jealousy and resentment, only to be rejected by their parents and brothers, she even felt a little sorry for her.
Later, her sister died. The family gave her a lavish burial and even arranged a ghost marriage for her.
Jiang Fei thought her sister must be happy in the afterlife.
Ning Xi returned from the dead. The Ji family planned to make it up to her, but she severed ties with them and walked away without looking back.
Everyone in the Ji family: If you have the guts to leave, don't ever come back!
Ning Xi never did come back. She rose higher and higher, earning reverence wherever she went. The Ji family had no standing to ask to see her.
Pei Jin is a notorious young playboy in Qingyang City. He eats, drinks, and has fun, lazing around without doing a single respectable thing.
One day, he somehow got assigned a ghost-marriage bride.
Furious, he smashed up the Ji family's shop. Once he'd vented his anger, he went back to enjoying himself.
Later, he heard that the Ji family's dead daughter had returned. Unable to resist his friends' goading, Pei Jin went to take a look.
First look: Crazy.
Second look: Country bumpkin.
Third look: Not bad-looking, but she's still not worthy of marrying into the Pei family.
Nth look: Darling, look at me! I'm your handsome and dashing husband!
Theme: Be self-reliant and strong
