What's the most miserable thing that can happen in life?
Finally thinking you've found the love of your life, only to be stabbed to death while giving birth to his child.
And what's even more miserable?
You don't die after all, but come back to life as an unmarried daughter of the prime minister with a child, and you don't even know which man is the child's father!
On the eve of her wedding, she unexpectedly gave birth, shocking everyone in the prime minister's residence.
The prime minister flew into a rage and wanted to kill the illegitimate child, sparing neither of the two newborn babies.
Even an uncle might put up with that, but an aunt certainly wouldn't!
After arguing her case, coaxing and threatening, she finally got the prime minister to relent and let her leave with her children.
She left the prime minister's residence and returned to the countryside: a thatched hut, two acres of poor farmland, mountains on three sides, and rich soil and water.
With her maid by her side and children to raise, she gathered herbs in the mountains, farmed the fields, shaped her figure, and worked on her beauty and fitness.
Gold and silver came rolling in. Local gentry and wealthy men came calling to propose. Her no-good father and stepmother came to claim her.
She drove off the rich suitors and her own father, only for a peerlessly handsome man to drop from the sky.
Wait, why did this handsome man look so much like the two little dumplings at her home?
Wait, was this handsome man the beast who had forced himself on her back then?
Shut the door! Release the dumplings!
The man could only suffer as he pursued his wife along a long and winding road.