Psychological
Blossoms Beneath the Snow
When I married into the Shen family, I already knew my husband had one great love.
She was the fisherman’s daughter who had saved him after he was gravely wounded while suppressing bandits.
They had sworn themselves to each other through life and death and privately pledged to marry.
But his mother threatened to take her own life and would only permit the woman to become his concubine.
On the eve of my wedding, Mother wept with worry and asked, “How will our Zhen’er ever live like this?”
How else?
He could play the devoted lover.
I would be the lady of the household.
Shen Yunfeng and I were merely two people traveling the same road toward entirely different ends.
Boiling Cool Water
I found a chat log on Sheng Jing’s phone.
He had sent his female assistant a video of me helping Jiu Jiu with her homework and losing my temper.
“This is why I’d rather work overtime at the office than come home.”
The young assistant replied with a “poor you, sending hugs” sticker. “Manager Sheng, you have it so hard.
Work is exhausting enough, and then you have to deal with all that when you get home.”
Bottle Woman
During an intimate moment, I accidentally scratched the tattoo on my boyfriend’s back, and he suddenly flew into a rage.
Feeling deeply wronged, I went to an emotional support livestream that night to talk about what happened.
The audience chimed in one after another to defend me, suspecting that my boyfriend’s feelings for me had changed.
Only the Host asked with a dead-serious expression:
“That tattoo on your boyfriend’s back-is it a bottle?”
Broken Love
My husband had an affair with the Married Woman downstairs.
I hid in the hallway, smoking with the Married Woman’s husband.
We didn’t dare return until they’d finished.
Later, they became even more brazen.
The Married Woman’s husband said, “I’m going to catch them in the act. What about you?”
I kept nibbling on my skewer, unconcerned.
“You go catch them, I’ll come too!”
Broken Promise
I’ve spent five years trying to win Shi Juan’s heart.
As long as he proposed to me on my birthday, I would have been allowed to stay in this world.
But I waited until the early hours of the morning, and only then did the System’s voice finally ring out.
[It is all over.]
[Shi Juan’s “white moonlight” returned today. He has been with her this entire time.]
After staying by my side for so long, the System decided to grant me one final request.
It would let me choose the manner of my death.
Fine. Since I have to leave sooner or later anyway…
I want to die right in front of Shi Juan.
I want him to kill me with his own hands.
And then, I want him to regret it for the rest of his life.
Buddha Won’t Save Me
At a family gathering, my younger sister, holding my boyfriend’s arm, beamed as she announced they were getting married.
With a room full of guests, I, dressed in monastic robes, faced their gazes with a calm expression.
Amitabha, I am a monastic.
The story of Lin Wei, the eldest daughter of the Lin Family, being forced into monastic life by her family, had long been known to all.
Butterfly Bones
My mom works as a housekeeper for Jiang Chuyi’s family, so I’ve lived in the Jiang Family home since I was little.
Jiang Chuyi is the model student in adults’ eyes.
Top grades, a good personality-he’s a child of heaven.
But the moment he took a knife and slit his own wrist-
I was the only one who saw it.
Call from Time and Space
In the dead of night, I received a phone call. The caller ID showed it was my husband. With a voice of utmost gravity, he told me that I would die at two o’clock in the morning.
But right now, he was clearly lying right beside me, fast asleep.
Camellia Earrings
Dad didn’t like me. I knew this from a very young age.
Because I wasn’t the boy he wanted.
To have a son, he sent me away, saying, “Sons are the roots, and I don’t lack daughters.”
Never having been loved, I was upset about it for a long time.
But when it came time for him to need support in his old age, he said, “Sons are unreliable; daughters are the most caring.”
“Second Sister, when Dad gets old, it’ll all be up to you!”
Carrion for Crows
I was the legitimate daughter of an illustrious clan, mild by nature and untouched by worldly desire, and I should have become the sacred monk’s disciple at the imperial temple, spending my life before an ancient Buddha and a solitary lamp.
For the sake of prestige, however, my parents insisted on marrying me to the eldest son of a ducal household—a well-matched libertine notorious for his debauchery.
Before I left, the monk heaved a long sigh and gave me a fragment of the Buddha’s bone, warning me to wear it at all times and never let it leave my body.
After I entered the Zhu household, my husband first brought home a concubine, then took a proper wife, but I did not mind, and my husband’s aunt praised me for knowing my place.
When my husband molested a colleague’s female relative and the Censorate denounced him, I did not mind, and my husband’s aunt praised my sweet temper.
My sister-in-law kept control of the household accounts, claiming that someone as pure as I was should never sully herself with the stink of money.
My mother-in-law demanded that I wait upon her morning and night and handle every task myself, so that I might become a model noblewoman.
At an imperial banquet, the Grand Empress Dowager took a fancy to the Buddha’s bone at my breast and demanded it for herself.
My mother-in-law hurried to tear it from my neck and offered it up with both hands, fawning shamelessly.
At last, I smiled in deliverance.
Twenty years, you damned bald donkey—let us see how you plan to keep the evil inside me chained now.