Breaking the Curse and Restoring Her Reputation

The next book is A Cold Beauty Meets a Madwoman [Raising Her], and the new story is now underway. The irreverent blurb: After being reborn, Luo Tang is fed up with her maternal family trying to take everything from her. She sneaks out of the manor to find a way to change her predicament. Just then, a heavy rain begins, and she encounters a woman. The woman has just come from a banquet that was a trap. She reeks of wine and is all alone, as if she has taken some kind of drug she should not have. At the critical moment, Luo Tang takes her back to an inn. The woman is drunk, her body feverish, cool and alluring... Believing that they are both women and wanting to help, Luo Tang stays with her through a difficult night. That night, she dutifully wipes Zhe Xiang's body. Wipe, wipe, wipe, wipe, wipe, wipe, wipe, wipe... And then, nothing happens. Later, when Luo Tang explains what happened that night, she says she only wiped her down. Strangely, no one believes that nothing improper happened between them. Lin Huaijin: You took advantage of my student. You have no conscience. Mr. Gu: It was mutual. Do you like her? Xiao Sese: You... are truly shameless. Luo Tang: ...Why won't any of you believe me? Zhe Xiang: Luo Tang, you owe me my good name back. *****The serious blurb Gu Tang spent her entire life fighting people, climbing up from the bottom until she reached the position of chancellor, only to end up in prison. In that cell, she found a notebook that had been there for many years, so long that its pages had yellowed. It must have been more than a hundred years old. The writer's hand was graceful and delicate. Page by page, the handwriting turned wild and hurried, as if the writer were short on time or had been driven into dire straits. At the beginning, the writer said: We are capable, and fear neither wind nor rain. At the end, she wrote: We are powerless, and will never see the light of day. Zhe Qing. The Zhe of breaking, the Qing of purity. Better to break than to lose one's purity. A hundred years ago, there was a woman of ill repute who betrayed her mentor and abused her power, bringing disaster to the country. In the end, she died beneath the executioner's blade. What had she done? Gu Tang remembered that she had enacted many reforms and fought to carve out a place for women. But in the end, she betrayed her mentor. That alone was enough to damn her beyond redemption. Gu Tang saw a young woman just coming of age, full of confidence as she followed her mentor into court to display her talents, only to die at her mentor's hands. Zhe Qing wrote: We are incapable of distinguishing black from white or right from wrong. We are truly foolish. Before she died, Gu Tang finished reading the notebook, then returned it to where she had found it. The notebook was like a ray of light. It made her feel that her own life had been a pool of dirty water, suddenly pierced by a beam of light. She died. When she opened her eyes, she had arrived a hundred years in the past and become a daughter of the Luo family, Luo Tang, a woman whose maternal relatives were about to take everything from her. She resolved to break away from them and make her own way in the world. That was when she met Zhe Qing. Zhe Qing held an umbrella over her. Her pale fingers swept past Luo Tang's eyes, and that ray of light shone through once more. Suddenly, she wondered whether saving Zhe Qing would be the same as saving the world. Zhe Qing was like a book, like a poem, full of subtle charm. First she read the book, then she got to know the person. The person and the book were alike, both full of flavor. The flavor of Zhe Qing left her spellbound. *Also titled Zhe Xiang *The title