After spending her whole life working herself to the bone in the modern world, He Qingsui transmigrates into the body of a poor farmer's daughter in Fangping Village.
With both parents dead, no men in the family, and their fields about to be confiscated, she chooses to marry the handsome man she picked up.
She thinks she will spend the rest of her life with him, until Yu Wuchen appears.
Xie Wuju, her husband, is the domineering, cool, and arrogant original gong who loves grabbing people by the neck and waist, and whom she has now raised into a pampered little husband.
Yu Wuchen, her rival in love, is the pure and noble original shou, cruelly humbled and deprived of his pride, and now determined to take her man away.
And she is the cannon-fodder first wife who gets just one line in the original novel, yet causes the two of them to suffer through a 200,000-word tragic romance.
Faced with this situation, He Qingsui of course steps aside obediently.
"I can agree, but I have one condition."
Her gaze burns so brightly that Yu Wuchen cannot look away.
"I want you to lead me onto the path of cultivation."
Later, when He Qingsui, an ordinary farmer's daughter, works her way to becoming the greatest cultivator in the world and draws countless gazes, Yu Wuchen finally begins to understand what it feels like to love someone but be unable to say it.
She's shrewd, worldly, and ambitious, with none of the grace a cultivator is supposed to have. And yet, I'm completely captivated by her.
Reading guide:
1. All the men are sexually inexperienced and faithful (her ex-husband only ever slept with the female lead). Includes a gay-to-straight element and breaks up the two original couples, but neither pairing becomes endgame.
2. There is a male lead, and he has always been straight.
3. The female lead cultivates immortality and is adored by everyone. Expect men competing for her and plenty of love-triangle drama.
4. Only dive in if you're okay with all of the above!
Theme: My fate is mine to command, not Heaven's.
