* AgeGapRomance: Wu Ren and Quin Yi. When they marry, he's in his forties and she's in her teens. During this time period this wasn't that strange, and it actually works out brilliantly.
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* MayDecemberRomance: Wu Ren and Quin Yi. When they marry, he's in his forties and she's in her teens. During this time period this wasn't that strange, and it actually works out brilliantly.
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* SpiritedYoungLady: Peony. Quin Yi as well, despite being from a lower-class family. Peony and her family's interference in her education helps give her the refinement she needs to marry in Wu Ren's family.
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%% * SpiritedYoungLady: Peony. SpiritedYoungLady:
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%% ** QuinYi as well, Yi, despite being from a lower-class family. Peony and her family's interference in her education helps give her the refinement she needs to marry in Wu Ren's family.
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* SpiritedYoungLady: Peony. Quin Yi as well, despite being from a lower-class family. Peony's interference in her education helps give her the refinement she needs to marry in Wu Ren's family.
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* SpiritedYoungLady: Peony. Quin Yi as well, despite being from a lower-class family. Peony's Peony and her family's interference in her education helps give her the refinement she needs to marry in Wu Ren's family.
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** At one point, oral sex is referred to as "playing the flute."
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* SpiritedYoungLady: Peony.
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* SpiritedYoungLady: Peony. Quin Yi as well, despite being from a lower-class family. Peony's interference in her education helps give her the refinement she needs to marry in Wu Ren's family.
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* DeathIsASadThing
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* DeathIsASadThingDeathIsASadThing: [[spoiler: Peony's death hits her family and Wu Ren hard. And the afterlife isn't easy on her, enough.]]
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* OurGhostsAreDifferent
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* OurGhostsAreDifferent OurGhostsAreDifferent: Chinese beliefs in the afterlife are the basis for most of the story.
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* HenpeckedHusband: Wu Ren becomes this during his first marriage to Tan Ze. She's from a wealthy family and complains constantly about the lack of luxury in his house, the conduct of the servants, and the quality of the food. She insults his poetry too and loudly demands money to buy expensive goods for herself. At one point she even begs her parents to buy her back from Wu Ren, but [[EveryoneHasStandards even they are disgusted]] with her bratty and embarrassing behaviour and they give her mother-in-law compensation instead. Wu Ren has to turn to prostitutes for comfort during this marriage before Peony intervenes.
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* HenpeckedHusband: Wu Ren becomes this during his first marriage to Tan Ze. She's from a wealthy and snobbish family and complains constantly about the lack of luxury in his house, the conduct of the servants, and the quality of the food. She insults his poetry too and loudly demands money to buy expensive goods for herself. At one point she even begs her parents to buy her back from Wu Ren, but [[EveryoneHasStandards even they are disgusted]] with her bratty and embarrassing behaviour and they give her mother-in-law compensation instead. Wu Ren has to turn to prostitutes for comfort during this marriage before Peony intervenes.
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** Wu Ren is this to his mother as well.
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* TheDutifulSon: After [[spoiler: Peony dies and her grandmother lifts the fertility curse on the family]], the intelligent and responsible young man her father adopts produces heirs/sons and takes good care of the family's lands, tenants, and surviving members.
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* HenpeckedHusband: Wu Ren becomes this during his first marriage to Tan Ze. She's from a wealthy family and complains constantly about the lack of luxury in his house, the conduct of the servants, and the quality of the food. She insults his poetry too and loudly demands money to buy expensive goods for herself. At one point she even begs her parents to buy her back from Wu Ren, but [[EveryoneHasStandards even they are disgusted]] with her bratty and embarrassing behaviour and they give her mother-in-law compensation instead. Wu Ren has to turn to prostitutes for comfort during this marriage.
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* HenpeckedHusband: Wu Ren becomes this during his first marriage to Tan Ze. She's from a wealthy family and complains constantly about the lack of luxury in his house, the conduct of the servants, and the quality of the food. She insults his poetry too and loudly demands money to buy expensive goods for herself. At one point she even begs her parents to buy her back from Wu Ren, but [[EveryoneHasStandards even they are disgusted]] with her bratty and embarrassing behaviour and they give her mother-in-law compensation instead. Wu Ren has to turn to prostitutes for comfort during this marriage.marriage before Peony intervenes.
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* HenpeckedHusband: Wu Ren becomes this during his first marriage to Tan Ze. She's from a wealthy family and complains constantly about the lack of luxury in his house, the conduct of the servants, and the quality of the food. She insults his poetry too and loudly demands money to buy expensive goods for herself. At one point even begs her parents to buy her back from Wu Ren, but [[EveryoneHasStandards even they are disgusted]] with her bratty and embarrassing behaviour. Wu Ren has to turn to prostitutes for comfort during this marriage.
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* HenpeckedHusband: Wu Ren becomes this during his first marriage to Tan Ze. She's from a wealthy family and complains constantly about the lack of luxury in his house, the conduct of the servants, and the quality of the food. She insults his poetry too and loudly demands money to buy expensive goods for herself. At one point she even begs her parents to buy her back from Wu Ren, but [[EveryoneHasStandards even they are disgusted]] with her bratty and embarrassing behaviour.behaviour and they give her mother-in-law compensation instead. Wu Ren has to turn to prostitutes for comfort during this marriage.
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* HenpeckedHusband: Wu Ren becomes this during his first marriage to Tan Ze. She's from a wealthy family and complains constantly about the lack of luxury in his house, the conduct of the servants, and the quality of the food. She insults his poetry too and loudly demands money to buy expensive goods for herself. At one point even begs her parents to buy her back from Wu Ren, but [[EveryoneHasStandards even they are disgusted]] with her bratty and embarrassing behaviour. Wu Ren has to turn to prostitutes for comfort during this marriage.
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* JerkAss: Peony's grandfather.
* LoveAtFirstSight: Peony and Ren.
* LoveAtFirstSight: Peony and Ren.
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* JerkAss: Peony's grandfather.
grandfather, to a hideous degree. Penny's grandmother despises him for good reason.
* LoveAtFirstSight: Peony and Wu Ren.
* LoveAtFirstSight: Peony and Wu Ren.
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* MostWritersAreWriters: The main character is a poet/critic and so is her LoveInterest.
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