Life hasn’t been kind to Yu Tingwan since her parents’ death. Living under her relatives’ roof, she works herself to the bone, day in and day out, without complaint. Her aunt-in-law, cruel and calculating, plots to sell her to a lecherous seventy-year-old village Scholar.
Finally reaching her breaking point, Yu Tingwan rebels.
She’d had enough!
She wouldn’t stand for it anymore!
Rather than let others dictate her marriage, she’d rather take matters into her own hands.
On her way back from a failed matchmaking arrangement, fate intervenes. She encounters the young master of the Wei family, being carried by others, his body covered in wounds. Suddenly, a mysterious dizziness overcomes her, bringing with it visions awash in red – scenes from a future that shouldn’t exist..
Amidst the thunderous beating of drums and gongs, she sees the Wei family’s young master in wedding attire, his expression dark with melancholy as his mother pushes him into the bridal chamber.
“Who could be so unfortunate to marry him?” she wonders.
Then she sees the bride’s face, pinned to the marriage bed.
It’s… her own!
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General Wei Zhao once stood proud and noble, his military achievements legendary. But when he uncovers a massive deception that had entrapped him for over a decade, his world crumbles. Disillusioned and suicidal, he turns his famous Cloud-Breaking Spear – the very weapon that has slain countless enemies – upon himself during a frontier battle.
Yet death rejects him. Instead, he awakens as the young master Wei in a remote village. Wei Zhao’s life, once shrouded in darkness and despair, seems destined for eternal gloom..
Until she crashes into his world.
Determined and feisty, Yu Tingwan barges into his life like a whirlwind. She grabs his collar, stands on her tiptoes, and steals a quick kiss.
“Don’t be ungrateful,” she says boldly. “You should count yourself lucky to have married me!”
