Back in the place where she was originally murdered, she tries to investigate what happened and learns from the servants that Zhao Qing had often complained about her past self, Chu Zi Qian, as not being worthy of him, trying to get out of the marriage several times, and always arguing with his father the Emperor over it. Concluding that he must've hated her enough to kill her, Chu Zi Qian, now as Lin Yan, decides that it's time for payback.
Bai Xiao Tang finds herself in the world of a novel, where she has transformed into the wife of a villain. She asks that her husband divorce her, just when he is down and out. Deciding to avoid a predictable end, where she dies tragically at the hands of the villain, she hugs his thigh. (Source: Chinese = Douban || Translation: MyDramaList) ~~Adapted from the novel of the same name