A story about a traditional beauty who treated her husband like a god, then, after he died, was seized, possessed, and thoroughly ravished by all kinds of hypocrites and genuine lechers.
Cheng Lianxin was born into a family of scholars. He entered a teachers' university at eighteen, became a high school Chinese teacher at twenty-two, quit his job and married the man his family had chosen for him at twenty-four, and became a widower at twenty-seven.
All his life, he had been taught to follow the rules and uphold propriety. He never imagined that after his husband's death, he would be forced to live a life everyone would condemn as “the collapse of rites and music, the decline of public morals.”
I'm writing this for fun, and it probably won't be very long? I'm not sure whether there'll be childbirth, so I'm also not sure about the setting, but that's roughly the plot.
Theme: Self-reliance