Publisher's Synopsis
An ill-fate lady's love story......
The protagonist of this book is He Mengxia, a primary school teacher. He lived in the home of a distant relative, Cui Shi, and also served as a tutor of his family. He Mengxia and Bai Liying fell in love from admiration. However, this is a love that is doomed to be hopeless. Due to her frustration, Bai Liying introduced her sister-in-law Junqian to He Mengxia and forced them to marry by using "the scheme of grafting trees and removing flowers, and the scheme of replacing Li with a stiff peach".
He Mengxia, resided in the distant relative Cui's home and also served as the coach of his family. Cui's widowed wife, Bai Liying, came from big family, and her son Penglang was couched by He Mengxia. Bai Liying felt sorry for her dead husband. On one hand, she killed herself in order to cut off He Mengxia's feelings for herself. Junqian was a new woman trained by the school. She yearned for free marriage, and was not satisfied with her widowed sister-in-law's arranged marriage. Later, he found out the love between Bai Liying and He Mengxia and felt that she had killed Bai Liying, so she also killed herself. He Mengxia also wanted to die for love, but thought that a true man should die for state affairs, so she went abroad to study and participated in the Wuchang Uprising after returning home and at last he died for her country.
