The Vanishing Beauty

Yu Meng is an internet blogger raised in the Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai region, the only daughter of her family. Her husband, Di Liren (狄立人), played by Qiao Zhenyu (乔振宇), is the model son-in-law: he married into her family as a zhuixu (赘婿, a husband who joins the wife's household). On their fifth wedding anniversary the picture cracks. She learns that he is seeing Wen Xiaoxiao (文晓晓), played by Yi Mengling (易梦玲), a fashion blogger with more than ten million followers.

According to a viewer, the confrontation does not go as expected: Wen is no deluded homewrecker but an opportunistic pragmatist who treats the affair as a transaction. Yu Meng turns to a divorce lawyer, Jiao Xu (焦旭), played by Chang Huasen (常华森), and to her best friend, Liu Zi (刘姿). At their first meeting he lays out the standard playbook of a cheating husband and she, unconvinced, leaves, so the partnership begins with distrust.

The setting is contemporary urban China. The production presents the marriage as a trap with a name, chi juehu (吃绝户, "eating the household with no heir"), an online term for schemes that target the property of a family with only a daughter. The series adapts a novel of the same name by Yi Bei (伊北).

The drama treats divorce as hard, and the law behind it is real. Under China's Civil Code (民法典), property earned during a marriage is joint, premarital property stays personal, and infidelity alone does not entitle the wronged spouse to damages. A spouse who hides or transfers joint property may receive less in the division.

Li Yitong is mostly a period-drama face overseas, best known as Lu Wenxi (陆文昔) in Royal Nirvana (鹤唳华亭). Here she leads a polished contemporary drama, and forum viewers noticed the shift.