The Fake Heiress’s True and False Lives

Xi Yue was kidnapped at the age of four, then abandoned by her captors when she fell seriously ill. Someone took her to an orphanage, where En Yan had also been maliciously abandoned amid a family power struggle. The two girls were close from childhood. Later, they both returned to their respective families, but En Yan's family was wealthy while Xi Yue's was ordinary. Still, they grew up relying on each other, and Xi Yue assumed they would naturally marry one day.

But En Yan couldn't resist the corrosive temptations of society. He betrayed Xi Yue and married the wealthy heiress Hao Wencui. After the wedding, however, Wencui's arrogance, selfishness, and laziness left En Yan consumed with regret. He began longing for Xi Yue's kindness and simplicity, and finally realized he had always loved her deeply. But Xi Yue had emerged from her pain and no longer loved En Yan. Her heart was empty of love and desire after all she'd suffered, until Hao Enci pursued her relentlessly and made her fall in love again. Just as she was losing herself in romance once more, she accidentally learned that Enci had pursued her only to help his younger sister rise in status. Xi Yue didn't berate herself for being foolish. She simply turned and walked away.

Xi Yue's disappearance left both En Yan and Enci heartbroken. En Yan regretted what he'd done, while Enci had truly fallen in love with Xi Yue. He'd only claimed otherwise to save face. He wanted to tell her that when they first met, he hadn't known she was En Yan's childhood sweetheart. But Xi Yue could no longer hear him. By the time she returned, she already had a loved one and a child.