Face-Slapping: The Fake Stand-In Is Actually a Real Heiress

[Replacement + heiress + a groveling chase + the four heirs of the capital + childhood friends + mutual secret crushes]

(The male lead is not Zhao Jingxing.)

(The setting is fictional, and the positions and titles do not reflect reality. For entertainment only.)

Young Master Zhao was infamous for being a womanizer, but Qiao Yunqing stayed by his side for two years, thanks to her resemblance to his unattainable first love.

Sweet and considerate, she was devoted to him, a dependent little flower and a canary who would love him until death. For two years, no matter how he treated her, she stayed faithfully by his side. Before long, no one in their circle believed Qiao Yunqing would ever leave him.

Then his first love returned. Qiao Yunqing packed her things and slipped away without a word, and Young Master Zhao searched all of City A for her.

*

When they met again, the former substitute canary had transformed into an heiress whom everyone in the capital regarded with awe. Holding a glass of wine, Young Master Zhao could only gaze up at the dazzling jewel in the crowd.

*

Qiao Yunqing was the most noble peony in the capital. Her grandfather had named her after the national flower. Raised in luxury and doted on since childhood, she was someone the entire capital circle treated with reverence. Yet an accident had once brought her to her lowest point.

*

Zhou Jinyue had a garden in his heart, filled with magnificent peonies. He had planted them in the summer when he was fifteen. They had bloomed in all their splendor, then withered away.

He thought he was the only one in love, but the peony told him she had fallen for him long ago.

[Actually, I fell for you before you fell for me.]