The Widowed Woman Everyone Covets

Also known as No Better Than Never Being Born

Perhaps it was punishment for smiling at her gravely ill husband and saying, "Go to hell." In the middle of his funeral, Deng Mingli was pinned against his coffin by a guest.

The coffin lid was half open. Below her lay her husband's cold corpse; above her was a man's muscular, burning-hot body. She scoffed and wrapped her arms around the newcomer.

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Deng Mingli is the daughter of a servant. The madam selects her to accompany her son, who has a heart condition, and sends her to an elite academy.

The young master doesn't want to study, and she gets scolded. Something happens to him, and she gets punished. She also has to endure his revenge, because he sees her as a traitor.

Her classmates mock her accent, while at home, complaints and arguments fill every day.

To pay off her debts, she works as a nude model for an artist and as a playmate for spoiled rich kids. The harder she tries, the more miserable she becomes. The more she tries to get away, the deeper she sinks into the mire. Even the embrace of the person she admires is only meant to spread her legs for a female betrothed disguised as a man.

Until her bare-breasted paintings are splashed everywhere.

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Life is an absurd nightmare. There's no running, no escape.

But there is still one place where they can't reach her.

Surrounded, Deng Mingli looks toward the deep ravines in the mountains.

Theme: They despise her for her notorious reputation, and resent themselves even more for not being worthy of a place at the table