Jiang Nan transmigrates into a male-oriented novel as the concubine maid given to the male lead, a son of the Cui family, by his stepmother.
By then, the male lead has already risen to become a powerful minister, and the story is nearing its end.
He has a one true love, and Jiang Nan, who has transmigrated into the story, looks exactly like the woman in the legends. Even the red mole on her earlobe is an exact match.
Because of her looks, the stepmother chose her from a broker who trafficked in people, secretly trained her at a country estate for some time, and then sent her to the male lead's residence.
Jiang Nan cannot accept being treated as a pawn and plaything, sent to a man.
But after seeing with her own eyes the fate of someone who tried to escape the trafficker, beaten to death with clubs,
she doesn't dare.
She keeps her head down, bides her time, and behaves obediently.
She plans to go along with the stepmother's wishes, get close to the male lead, win his heart, get her indenture contract back, and then escape.
She knows her place as a pawn, and knows she is a stand-in.
She is also always ready to run.
Cui Zheng looks down at the woman prostrate at his feet. She looks exactly like the woman he made up on a whim.
He finds it amusing.
As a powerful minister, he needs a few weaknesses to put people at ease.
Either money or women.
He has no shortage of money.
So he casually described a woman's appearance, never expecting someone to actually find one.
He might as well play along with them. But this woman seems to adore him so much that she even disobeys her master. For someone so afraid of pain, she threw herself in front of a blade to protect him.
Does she really love him that much?
Then, in his magnanimity, he will allow her to become another woman to warm his bed.
But this woman deceived him!
All she wanted was to get her indenture contract back and escape!
Does she think he's some softhearted bodhisattva? She deceived him and still expects to get away unscathed?
Jiang Nan vs. Cui Zheng.
Forced pursuit + the male lead falling for his own ploy.
