Jiang Zhizhuo was once the Grandmaster of the Hehuan Sect, but a bolt of heavenly lightning struck her and sent her into a book.
She became a lowly cannon-fodder character, destined to witness the male lead and two female leads caught in a tragic love triangle.
Her family in the Duke's manor used her,
forcing her to seduce her brother-in-law and pave the way for their true daughter.
The male lead, her brother-in-law, hated her.
He thought she was the greatest stain on his life, ruining his vow to remain chaste for his deceased first love.
When her elder sister, the false first love who had faked her death, returned, she smiled as she personally sent Jiang Zhizhuo to her doom.
Faced with the book's disastrous start and enemies on every side, Jiang Zhizhuo simply smiled.
She had heard that within the Forbidden City stood a jade-built Star-Plucking Tower, brimming with spiritual energy.
It was the perfect place to cultivate. She wanted it.
The Duke's entire family had betrayed their promises and would be executed to the last. That would best strengthen her Daoist heart. She wanted that, too.
And as for her brother-in-law, who was devotedly chaste for his supposedly dead elder sister, yet still vigorous and virile,
he was a potent tonic. She wanted him, too.