A Second-Rate Lover, but a First-Rate Actor

Blurb: After giving away all her wealth and living as if ready to die, Lu Yin looked back on the past and said:

"So far, every woman who has either loved me or hated me has been willing to do anything for me in the end."

Lu Yin was born with the air of someone who knows how to love.

A glance from her was quietly flirtatious and ambiguously aloof. She seemed to love everyone desperately, yet also seemed to be searching through them all for someone who was no longer alive.

Anyone held in the gaze of those misty, tear-filled eyes could only worry that the moisture in them would turn to tears and fall at any moment.

Hold her. Comfort her. Tell her to stop crying.

Even knowing she was selfish, promiscuous, morally corrupt, and perhaps suffering from some mental illness, you still couldn't help being drawn to her.

She was born alluring yet innocent and sweet, ambitious yet as calm as water. She flouted the rules of society and lived freely, yet willingly let love tie her down and indulged you.

Whenever you used a word to describe her, you were sure to find its opposite in her too. She was truly bewitching.

A little scene:

While being interviewed for her autobiography, legendary film queen Mu Zhuoshang spoke of her lover, her face plainly showing helpless adoration and delight. "Don't you think Lu Yin has a certain beauty in her flaws?"

Lu Yin shot her a sidelong glance, her lips vivid and sensual. "A flaw is a flaw. What do you mean, 'beauty in her flaws'?"

Mu Zhuoshang smiled, kissing her with a lingering gaze. "I should clearly follow reason and stay away from you, but my feelings made me fall hopelessly in love with you. One look from you, and I come running over, overjoyed, treating you like a goddess."

Theme: An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a wound for a wound