Destined

Liu Yuru spends fifteen years shaping herself into the perfect maiden, all for the sake of marrying a good husbandonly to be forced, on the eve of her engagement, to wed Yangzhous infamous wastrel, Gu Jiusi. She believes her life is ruined, until she learns he, too, was forced into the match. After three days of despair, she awakens to a new truth: since she has married a wastrel, there is no need to remain a model maiden. On the third day of their marriage, trembling but resolute, she storms into a brothel, faces the drunken Gu Jiusi, and commands himGet up. From that moment, Gu Jiusis rise from fallen playboy to firstrank official begins, always with Liu Yuru at his side, supporting him with her frail strength and the same unwavering words: Get up. For fifteen years, Liu Yuru believed she lived to find a good man. Only after meeting Gu Jiusi does she understand: a good man shows you that you live for yourself. May this body shield her from wind and rain, keep her robes unsoiled and her temples free of frost.