River Hibiscus

Jiang Fu is an ordinary mortal in the cultivation world. Though her first half of life is bleak because she is an orphan, she is fortunate enough to meet a husband who truly loves her.

He is handsome and brilliant, a peerless talent. He saves her life on a mountainside and loves her with a consuming passion. Jiang Fu shyly agrees to marry him.

Their days after marriage feel like a stroll through a world of honey, sweeter than anything Jiang Fu has ever known. He takes her across mountains and rivers, cooks for her, teaches her to read and write, and watches the seasons change with her.

But later, they accidentally pass by a battle between the Immortal Sects and the Demon Realm. A single, casual spell brings devastation to their mortal bodies.

He shields Jiang Fu with his own body, and then he is reduced to nothing, without even a complete corpse.

A mortal as insignificant as an ant, Jiang Fu can do nothing. She watches helplessly as he vanishes before her eyes.

Their time together seems like a sudden, beautiful dream, ending in the cruelest way to tell Jiang Fu that it is time to wake up.

Many years later, a reckless, madwoman of a low-level cultivator appears in the cultivation world. She has little talent, but works so hard that everyone fears her.

In the most desperate year of her life, Jiang Fu hears that the Immortal Sects have a spell that can bring the dead back to life.

Thinking of how well he treated her, she endures the agonies of having her bones and marrow remade, and countless scorching summers and freezing winters. At last, she reaches the gates of the Immortal Sect.

Then she looks up and sees the man sitting in the sect leader's seat. It is her dead husband.

Synopsis dated October 16, 2024

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Shiwei's husband, whom she found by chance, is as beautiful as a jade tree and eloquent. Those who had been waiting to mock the lonely orphan are green with envy.

Shiwei cherishes the only family she has in the world. The mountain ginseng she meant to trade for farmland, she instead exchanges for medicine to treat his injuries. Whatever good things are in the house, she lets him use them first.

But for some reason, her husband is always set on returning to the capital, and Shiwei is at her wits' end.

The auntie next door says that a child would tie the man down. Late one night, Shiwei pins him to the new bamboo bed. Unsure what to do, she kisses him a few times at random, then contentedly starts to leave, only for him to grab her around the waist.

Does this woman really not understand, or is she pretending?

Pei Junluo clenches his jaw, breathing in the faint, elegant fragrance at the tip of his nose. He sighs. Never mind. She did save his life, after all.

Later, Shiwei has just blown out the lamp when she sees the dignified, incomparable man already lying in her bed. With stubborn resolve, he says he will repay her life-saving kindness by giving himself to her.

But later still, Shiwei's husband says he has to go home for a visit, and then vanishes without a trace.

After waiting a long time, all Shiwei receives is a thick stack of banknotes and a letter telling her to forget everything.

So he was the Crown Prince all along. No wonder he looked down on her.

Why go to all that trouble? She only wanted a home. With this money, she can find an honest, kind man and live her life in peace.

There are already too many people in this world who have deceived her, Shiwei. One more doesn't make much difference.

After finally opening a lively wine shop in the capital, Shiwei smiles as she counts the accounts and studies the young men from Jinling gathered outside. She thinks it might be nice to choose one of them for a husband, but suddenly they scatter like startled birds.

The new emperor's carriage has stopped outside.

"Shiwei, don't look at them. Just look at me."

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Theme: Hard work always pays off