When the Cold, Unhinged Persona Loses Its Protagonist Halo

Content warning: The pursuit-after-losing-her fails. Du Changqing is a woman. The story centers on the emotional entanglement of three people, with romance as the main focus. There are no men in the three-way relationship.

Shu Hanyi and Du Changqing were betrothed as children. Later, when the Shu family fell into ruin, Du Changqing still chose to marry her.

After a year of marriage, they treated each other with polite respect, sharing a bed but not a quilt.

A year later, during a torrential downpour, Du Changqing chose to take her cousin away first, leaving Shu Hanyi alone in the rain.

After waiting for a long time, Shu Hanyi realized she was the only one who cared about this marriage.

When Du Changqing returned, she asked for a divorce.

Du Changqing found her ridiculous. "You're a doctor. You know how to keep warm, and you made it back on your own afterward. You're really going to make a fuss over something this trivial? How will you survive without me?"

She became a laughingstock in the Du household.

She wanted a divorce but couldn't get one. Then, just as she was at her wits' end, she met the younger daughter of her concubine aunt, whom she had known as a child.

Xiao Ruyun, daughter of the Grand Princess, had been frail since birth. Everyone said she wouldn't live to see eighteen.

After a serious illness, she seemed like a completely different person, no longer sickly and frail, and began actively pursuing Shu Hanyi.

Even knowing that Du Changqing had drugged Shu Hanyi's drink, she still chose to drink it for her.

She threw herself into Shu Hanyi's arms, her whole body burning...

Shu Yi is Shu Hanyi's adopted daughter. When Shu Hanyi was alone and destitute, she brought Shu Yi back to the Du household, but Shu Yi is only her adopted daughter and has no relation to the Du family.

Her adoptive mother was betrothed to Du Changqing as a child. The two tormented each other for years. Shu Yi watched it all, but could do nothing.

She had loved Shu Hanyi since childhood, but their age difference kept her from being with her. She did everything she could to take Shu Hanyi away from the Du household, but it was already too late. Shu Hanyi had passed away.

After transmigrating, she became the frail daughter of the Grand Princess and returned to her adoptive mother's youth.

On that rainy day, Du Changqing left Shu Hanyi behind. Shu Yi knew she had returned to the wrong time.

She should have gone back a year earlier, before they married, and broken them up.

Fortunately, it wasn't too late. She could still keep trying to break them up until Du Changqing came to her senses and realized that Shu Hanyi was the person she loved most.

Shu Yi sneered. "I'm here now. Do you really think you'll succeed?"

Does every pursuit-after-losing-her story have to end in success?

Does every broken relationship have to be mended?

Theme: Pursue the good life you want for yourself.