[Weibo: Curled Fish Tail]
1.
Zhou Jiexiang is an insignificant young lady of the Zhou family. On the eve of her wedding, Zhou Yan, the servant who once attended to her, returns from abroad and disrupts her engagement.
For four years, Zhou Jiexiang lives in constant fear, avoiding Zhou Yan like the plague. Beneath the sweet osmanthus trees he planted all over the courtyard for her, she makes a wish never to see him again. A gust of wind blows a strip of red cloth from a branch. She picks it up and sees Zhou Yan's rebellious wish written on it:
He wants to tie her down, and he wants to rob her away.
2.
Zhou Yan willingly lets Zhou Jiexiang deceive him, waiting alone in loneliness for four years, only to hear that she is getting married.
That night, he looks at her with a sneer. “Zhou Jiexiang, did you think you could get away from me?”
At that time, a woman in Hanan City is rumored to be having an affair with her servant. The two are mocked and laughed at by everyone. In a narrow alley, a crowd gathers. Zhou Jiexiang stands there, stunned, imagining herself in the same predicament. As she pities the woman, Zhou Yan murmurs lazily by her ear, “What's wrong with a master and servant sneaking off together?”
Hearing this, she is terrified, sensing his wild ambition coming to the surface.
*Fictional Republican-era setting. Historical details are not the point.
*Open ending.
Theme: Live well
I selfishly hope that Yuxiang can resist in the later stage. I feel so distressed?
It's good to read. It's been a long time since I've read a book about the Republic of China that I couldn't read.
Waiting for a big update^_^