
On the night Jiang Wu married her fiancé, she had a dream. She realized that her world was actually a novel, and her noble, aloof husband, who seemed indifferent to everything, was the male lead of a banned novel. She, on the other hand, was the cannon fodder ex-wife destined to die.
Soon after her marriage, many ardent suitors would appear around her, dramatically attempting to entice her into an affair. There was the unruly young general who would always blush in her presence. The gentle and refined crown prince would pick flowers to express his affection, praising her as bright as the moon and unwilling to see her sullied.
Her green tea cousin, living in her home, would stoop to being a third party for love, claiming he'd willingly be a concubine as long as she had him in her heart. However, once Jiang Wu, swayed by their advances, truly divorced her rigidly traditional husband, all her suitors vanished.
It turned out they pursued Jiang Wu only to make her yield her position to their unrequited "white moonlight," simply because their white moonlight loved her husband. Their seduction and inducement for her to divorce were all to fulfill the love between the white moonlight and the male lead.
Fortunately, Jiang Wu learned the truth beforehand.
Newly opened novel for collection - "Manniang"
After Qin Shu led his army into the imperial city, he didn't expect someone to present him with an old acquaintance. An old acquaintance who, for wealth and glory, had twice put him in mortal danger. He did not refuse, for no one could refuse to see an old acquaintance begging like a dog beneath himself.
Since then, the Qi family lost a Madam Qi, and the palace gained a low-ranking concubine, Song Xiuyi. People often heard pleas and cries, as well as the sound of smashing瓷器, coming from Song Xiuyi's palace. She was publicly reprimanded and punished by the emperor, her body accumulating old injuries on top of new ones.
Over time, pity inevitably arose. More often, people blamed her for not being more virtuous and taking her own life to prove her chastity, rather than letting the emperor bear the charge of being a debauched ruler who forcibly took a subject's wife into the palace. It was also lamented how the once brilliant and talented Grand Tutor Qi could have married such a cowardly and shameless woman.
Everyone wished for Song Manniang's death; not a single person wished for her to live.