Li Qiao was born a fifth-class citizen to parents who were class-one criminals. She has none of the rights of a citizen and is forbidden from leaving Outlanko, a Class D city filled with gangs, red-light districts, and fugitives.
But when Li Qiao was sixteen, she awakened as an S+ guide and became the only top-tier guide in the entire empire.
Overnight, she went from being a nobody whose death in a garbage can wouldn't matter to anyone, to a rare treasure in the eyes of every high-ranking sentinel.
At eighteen, Li Qiao was betrothed by the emperor to the marshal's only son, Cheng Xin.
He was a gloomy and violent S+ sentinel who, at twenty-nine, had yet to find a suitable guide.
Unfortunately, in the third year of their marriage, Cheng Xin died on the battlefield, and his body was never found.
Everyone in the capital felt pity whenever they saw Li Qiao, the beautiful, young, yet fragile and frightened widow.
Sitting in the imperial palace before the emperor, Li Qiao lowered her eyes, revealing a stretch of slender, delicate, seemingly breakable neck.
Before long, she was betrothed to the twenty-four-year-old crown prince.
The crown prince was gentle and would never personally go to war.
Yet in the second year of their marriage, he encountered an S+ monster during a supposedly foolproof inspection tour and died without a body.
When Li Qiao heard the news, she cried at home until she nearly fainted.
Three months later, the empire's strongest sentinel returned from the battlefield and proposed to Li Qiao.
At twenty-three, Li Qiao married for the third time, this time to eighteen-year-old Alois, famed as the empire's God of War.
After marrying Li Qiao, Alois became nearly invincible on the battlefield.
The danger zone, which had once occupied a third of Blue Star's land, was forcibly cut in half.
But death was commonplace on the battlefield.
In the fifth year of their marriage, all that remained of Alois was a finger.
After becoming a widow for the third time, Li Qiao stood trial before the empire's military tribunal.
She was accused of deliberately killing her husbands.
But her spirit form was a Styx jellyfish, a huge, nonaggressive, exceptionally gentle and beautiful jellyfish.
Everyone thought Li Qiao was just a fragile, helpless top-tier guide, and that she could never have done something like this.
Those three men died because they were useless.
So, for the fourth time, Li Qiao married the emperor.
The day after their wedding, the emperor died.
He was killed by Li Qiao's three dead husbands.
Only Li Qiao knew that the Styx jellyfish was highly poisonous, and had an addictive effect that even the higher-ranked sentinels found impossible to resist.
*The female lead is a classic parasitic vine: beautiful, delicate, and vicious, and fully aware of it. The soil of a Class D city of sin cannot grow someone purely good and kind. She has almost no fighting ability, but is very good at using her advantages and talents. She's a natural dog trainer.
*An ultimate Mary Sue, beloved by all. Everyone is willing to become her dog. The only reason anyone hates her is that they resent the moon for shining on someone else.
*Except for the emperor, the other three husbands aren't dead. They were kept alive for a battle of romantic rivals.
*The female lead will ascend the throne in the end. A Mary Sue adored by all should have everything. My principle is that if you won't even give her the throne, don't claim you love her.
*The emperor died because he wasn't pure. He didn't deserve her. The other three ex-husbands are completely pure. There will be a cannon-fodder male character while she is a widow, but not at the same time as the others. If that bothers you, proceed with caution.
Theme: Opportunities are made, not given.
