A Thousand-Mile Escape: Choose a Child Groom and Become a Noblewoman!

(Transmigration + rebirth + revenge + marriage first, love later. A family tree for the Xie family can be found in the book's community and in the comments under the author's note at the end of Chapter One.)

After her parents are brutally murdered, Qianqian conceals her identity and flees with refugees for a thousand miles before reaching Jiangnan.

To evade her pursuers, she joins forces with the twins to trick Xie Jin into marrying her, and from then on lives as an ordinary farm wife.

Qianqian: She thought the Xie family would only be her safe haven. She never expected that she'd one day willingly stay by his side through every storm, never leaving him.

Xie Jin: After the wedding, he learns from the matchmaker that he'd been tricked. He keeps his distance, despises her, and is wary of her. But somehow, their relationship gradually changes...

The reborn woman looks at them with scorn. One is destined to die young, and the other to become a widow. She's the one chosen by fate.

Scholar Xie: His only wish for his later years is for the Xie family to rise to new heights, for Xie Jin and Xie Lin to support one another as brothers, and for his most highly regarded grandson to go further and further in his official career.

Meanwhile, the wealthy Shen family in Mingzhou is targeted by one scheme after another several years later.

A peach-blossom hairpin from more than a decade ago suddenly reappears, making Old Madam Shen spit blood.