Satisfying mind games · identity reversal
“The legitimate daughter’s tenderness is honey laced with poison; the concubine-born daughter’s show of weakness is a snare closing around its prey.
Gu Heng knew that Su Tan had lost her mother young and had no one to rely on, so she pushed her into becoming Pei Yan’s substitute. That way, she could keep the heir in her grasp while using Su Tan to gradually seize the marquis’s estate.
But she forgot that when Su Tan was a child, she had knelt in the snow and watched her mother be mistreated to death. She had learned long ago to hide her fangs behind a smile.
You gave me the crown of a “substitute,” so I’ll gather evidence of your “murder.” You use “sisterly affection” as a shield, so I’ll use “fury” as a spear.
When Pei Yan found Gu Heng’s embroidered handkerchief hidden among the old clothes of his long-lost love, and Su Tan uncovered the deeds for the land that had been embezzled...
