On her way to a banquet, Jiang Baoling stumbles into a heroic rescue scene, and before she knows it, she is hastily married off to someone else.
Only a few months after marrying Fu Erlang, she is bedridden with illness, one foot already in the grave.
Jiang Baoling despairs, feeling that her life is as fragile as paper.
Just before she dies, she suddenly thinks of someone she has never met: her husband's elder brother, Fu Suiyu, the eldest son of the Fu family.
She has heard that her brother-in-law is a sickly man who spends all year in bed. Now that Jiang Baoling knows what it is like to suffer from illness herself, she understands just how miserable it is...
Reborn, Jiang Baoling finds herself back on her wedding night. Recalling her past life, she is overcome with dread.
She assumes events will unfold just as they did before, but strangely, the husband she just married never comes to the bridal chamber.
Jiang Baoling: Where did my husband go?
She assumes Fu Erlang is off carousing, but it turns out he has gone and died!
Overnight, Jiang Baoling becomes the jinx who brings death to her husband, reviled by everyone. But she is timid by nature, and even when people curse and blame her, she dares not speak up.
One day, her sickly brother-in-law suffers a sudden attack. Her mother-in-law, who has never liked her, orders her to nurse him at his bedside.
This turns out to be just the opportunity Jiang Baoling needs.
Alone in the room, with incense curling through the air, Jiang Baoling pours her heart out to the sick man in bed:
"Brother-in-law... It's not as if I took his life. Why do they blame me for causing his death...?"
"They call me a vixen, a shameless little seductress. Brother-in-law, they say such awful things. Is it wrong to be born beautiful...?"
After letting it all out, Jiang Baoling feels much better. She wipes away her tears and thanks the sick man, then adds, "Brother-in-law, I wish you could stay sick every day. Then I could come nurse you every day."
As Jiang Baoling tucks the covers around him and sighs, she fails to notice the eyelid of the "sick man" twitching on the bed.
Soon, Jiang Baoling gets her wish.
But can someone tell her, does nursing someone mean nursing them in bed?!
Theme: Love is guided by fate
