THE PIG-FACED BRIDE

About this drama

Four hundred seventy-nine characters, and the copy breaks off mid sentence in its final clause, which this summary marks rather than completes. The premise is a fortune with a condition. A dying tycoon offers a fortune to whoever marries his daughter, the city's fabled beauty, kept hidden for eighteen years. The catch is legendary: every suitor runs screaming, since she is a pig-faced monster, cursed. Only one man stays, and the listing is precise about his motives: Cedric, secret heir of the family her father destroyed, here for revenge. He signs a ninety-day marriage to bury them all. The middle then reverses his plan in two movements. The monster bride thaws his frozen heart, and he learns the curse is real, with its only cure being his own willing blood. The copy's arithmetic is worth pausing on, because the revenge heir of the family that wronged hers turns out to be the literal cure for her affliction, which converts the marriage of enmity into a marriage of necessity. The final clause begins the last turn and stops at the dash: then her father discovers who he truly, and the sentence, the discovery, and its consequences are all outside the text. What the father learns, whether the wedding survives, and how the curse resolves are not given. Twenty-nine episodes, complete, 488 views. The catalogue confirms the count. The setup and reversal are fully stated, and the ending is the show's to stage.

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