Blurb:
Lin Sujin transmigrates to an unfamiliar dynasty after a car accident.
The good news is that someone rescues her and her beauty remains intact. The bad news is that the family who saves her has a son who has every vice imaginable: drinking, gambling, and chasing women. The whole family is plotting to marry her off to him.
Lin Sujin isn't the sort to put up with that. She quietly considers how she can get away.
As luck would have it, a young gentleman dressed in fine silk moves into the inn next door. He often comes to her incense-powder stall with his face flushed, bringing his page along.
After Lin Sujin deliberately entices him, the young gentleman falls deeply in love with her and insists he will marry no one else.
Before she can make her escape, the next day brings the young gentleman's powerful, high-ranking elder to her door.
While Xiao Jing is living in seclusion at an academy after withdrawing from the political fray, he hears an absurd rumor: his nephew, who is already engaged to the daughter of an old family friend, has been so bewitched by a seductive woman while studying that he plans to break off the engagement and marry her instead.
To protect the family's reputation, he orders his men to drag the woman before him, intending to deal with her.
But the woman has a bewitching, innocent charm. To save her life, she even loosens her clothes, baring part of her body.
Her lustrous skin glows in the candlelight, captivating the heart. Tears in her eyes, she parts her vermilion lips.
"I beg you to show mercy, my lord. Spare my life."
Reading guide:
1. Forced marriage and possessive pursuit. Neither the man nor the woman is virtuous.
2. Neither the male nor the female lead is a virgin.
3. One-on-one romance, with a groveling pursuit of the wife after she leaves.
Theme: Only when all seems lost can you find a way forward
