To avenge her senior brother, Yang An Ning, the famous opera actress in Yuncheng, riskily married He Xing Zhou, the son of the local warlord. With deliberate traps, she used him to approach the center of power and gradually expose the truth. Yet she didn’t know she was losing her heart as she set all these refined traps. He Xing Zhou, the poker-faced young marshal, was known as the Devil of Yucheng. He was extremely vengeful only because he saw through this dark and rotten world.
Everybody thought he accepted this actress who threw herself at him because he wanted to avenge his dream girl who betrayed him. Who would know that Yang An Ning turned out to be the only light pouring deep into the coldness of He Xing Zhou’s inside? However chaotic the world became, after using all kinds of tricks, this smart couple still couldn’t help falling in love and ended up obsessed with each other.
(Source: WeTV Taiwan)
~~ Adapted from the web novel "Tui Hun Hou Bei Da Lao Qin Ku Ke" (退婚后被大佬亲哭了) by Su Xiao Juan (苏晓卷).