Holding a lantern, guiding souls across, Lady Hou comes from the underworld.

Fu Yuan said she was boring.

Wen Yu heard it with his own ears.

That day was Fu Yuan's birthday banquet. He hosted a banquet for his friends at his residence, and many people came.

As his betrothed since childhood, Wen Yu naturally attracted much attention.

However, when she mustered her courage, took out the carefully embroidered brocade pouch, and prepared to give it to him, she heard these words behind the artificial hill.

Those present at the time were all Fu Yuan's friends.

Upon hearing this, they couldn't help but burst into laughter.

"We know that Young Master Fu only likes Miss Zuihuan..."

Upon hearing this, Fu Yuan smiled knowingly and did not refute it.

Wen Yu then learned that the woman he loved was named Zui Huan, a singing girl at the Forget-Worry Tavern.

To support her, Fu Yuan spent a lot of money, booking out entire restaurants several times.

But this woman named Zuihuan was also very aloof.

The more Fu Yuan liked and fawned over her, the more indifferent she became.

After learning about this, Wen Yu also spent a lot of effort asking someone to find a portrait of Zui Huan.

The woman in the portrait, dressed in purple, wasn't particularly beautiful.

But between her aloof brows and eyes, there was a hint of stubbornness. She was like the most beautiful flower blooming at the highest point of a branch on a cold night.

Not long after, Wen Yu deliberately waited in the cosmetics shop, glanced at her from afar, and even bought a set of all the rouge and face powder that she had bought.

She started wearing purple clothes and learning similar makeup and hair accessories, thinking that this would win Fu Yuan's favor.

But in reality, this imitation will only make the other party look down on you and hate you even more.

But how could Wen Yu have known all this back then?

She seemed to have fallen into a trap of trying to please Fu Yuan, losing herself and unable to extricate herself.

However, the more she did this, the worse Fu Yuan's attitude towards her became.

Instead of giving her a second glance, he started making sarcastic remarks.

Wen Yu was afraid of being disliked by Fu Yuan, so she lowered her voice and became more and more humble.

She even tried to keep Fu Yuan by overstepping her bounds while he was drunk.

This action thoroughly angered him.

Fu Yuan was already very dissatisfied with his fiancée.

But this dissatisfaction wasn't solely directed at Wen Yu.

It's not about "arranged marriage from birth" that's the issue.

As the eldest son of the Fu family, he was born superior to others. He had many choices in his life, whether it was literature, martial arts, or even business, and he achieved great success in each.

He can make many friends and go to many places, but he loses the right to choose when it comes to choosing a wife.

Therefore, he disliked Wen Yu from the very first moment he saw him.

Even though she possessed both beauty and talent, had a gentle personality, and was a good match for him in terms of social standing.

Because she didn't like it, she played the zither, and everyone praised her, but he was distracted.

Because he didn't like her, all her carefully prepared outfit was nothing more than a comment in his eyes: "Green doesn't suit you."

Because she doesn't like it, all her strengths will pale in comparison.

At his birthday banquet, everyone envied him, saying, "With a wife like this, what more could a husband ask for?"

He chuckled, clearly noticing a figure approaching him, but deliberately said, "My fiancée is perfect in every way, except she's just too boring..."

I said it on purpose for her to hear.

It's as if he can justify being "bad" to her simply by pointing out her "bad" aspects.

But if she makes even the slightest mistake, everything can be denied…

Wen Yu didn't understand any of this until Fu Yuan lost his temper, sent her home, and explained the reason in front of Wen's parents, directly breaking off the engagement.

He said, "I will not marry a shameless woman to be my wife in the Fu family."

But then, disregarding his family's objections, he insisted on marrying a courtesan.

When the annulment letter was returned to the Wen family, Wen Yu became the target of public criticism.

Her parents were extremely disappointed in her and punished her by making her kneel in the ancestral hall for two days and two nights.

She had been harboring resentment for a long time. During the two days and two nights of her dazed state, she recalled the past sixteen years of her life and felt that it was utterly absurd.

Wen Yu thought to herself that she didn't seem to live a single day for herself.

For so many years, she has been "disciplined" and has been trying to become the kind of person others like.

In the end, she lost everything and was completely changed.

Wen Yu fainted in the ancestral hall and fell ill as a result.

Because she was jilted, her parents felt she had brought shame to the family and didn't intend to keep her any longer.

So she had the doctor in charge of treating her add a colorless and odorless poison to the prescription.

Unfortunately, Wen Yu overheard these words.

But she didn't make a scene or question anyone. Instead, she obediently drank the bowl of medicine in front of her father.

Her father named her Wenyu, and she only learned the origin of the name when she grew up.

Soft and fragrant jade…

Thinking about it now, it just makes me feel disgusted.

The poison was very potent; one could die without experiencing much pain.

Her death was a good thing for the Wen family.

At least, they preserved their dignity.

You see, it was because the Fu family broke off the engagement that my Wen family's daughter died in despair.

However, the young master of the Fu family turned around and married a courtesan, which was truly heartless and ungrateful.

From then on, the people of Beiding County would pass this down in this way...

Upon hearing this, Yu Lang felt incredibly conflicted, and a chill ran down his spine.

Wen Yu looked at him, a smile playing on her lips, and asked, "Young Master Yu, tell me, who killed me?"

"Is it my fiancé, Fu Yuan? Or my father? Or perhaps the doctor who prescribed the medicine?"

"Or perhaps, I myself knowingly drank the poison?"

Yu Lang's expression was also complicated: "According to the law, the murderer is your father, and the accomplice is that doctor. They are both responsible."

Wen Yu smiled serenely: "But I don't hate them. I drank the medicine willingly."

"I'm fine as I am now..."

As she spoke, she asked Yu Lang, "Young Master Yu, isn't it wonderful that we're all in this dream together?"

Startled, Yu Lang immediately shrank back and hurriedly said, "Miss Wen, you are a good girl, but you were not born into a good family and did not meet a good man."

"Now that this life has come to an end, if you have truly let go of your attachments, shouldn't you be reincarnated and start a new life?"

Wen Yu smiled dismissively: "What's the point of reincarnation? Who knows what the next life will be like?"

"I prefer this to starting over..."

Her hand slowly climbed up Yu Lang's shoulder, down his neck, and down to his cheek: "It's just you and me here. We can do whatever we want, and no one will criticize us."

"Young Master Yu, take a good look. Aren't you tempted?"

Yu Lang's heart was indeed pounding, but it was clearly from fear...

"Miss Wen, please let me go! I still want to be a decent human being. I think being a decent human being is wonderful!"

Wen Yu smiled gently, but her voice was cold: "You have no chance."

She had barely finished speaking when another cold voice came from behind them.

Whether he has a chance or not is not up to you.

Wen Yu and Yu Lang turned around at the same time and found a woman in red who had appeared behind the beaded curtain at some point.