[Sweet, well-behaved heroine with a hidden edge + heroine pursues hero]
Shen Xiangyi is the heroine whose fortune was stolen from her. From the day she was born, she was branded a jinx who killed her birth mother and would bring calamity upon the family.
Shen Xiangyi, who grew up with little confidence, saw the elegant and radiant Pei Yu, heir to the marquis’s household, as her only light.
Later, Pei Yu injured his leg and became her older sister’s fiancé, as well as the “brother-in-law” Shen Xiangyi called him. Then, after an accident left her drunk and out of control, she woke up in the same bed as her brother-in-law. Her reputation was ruined, and her stepmother, wanting to eliminate a future threat, sent her to the Crown Prince to be his secret lover. Soon afterward, the Crown Prince’s faction fell, and Shen Xiangyi was implicated and sentenced to die by suicide.
Before her death, her stepmother came to see her off and finally told her the truth. It turned out that her stepmother had transmigrated into this world. Unwilling to remain a minor character destined for a tragic death, she had carefully plotted to strip Shen Xiangyi of her heroine’s fate bit by bit and give it to her own daughter. But Shen Xiangyi still became entangled with Pei Yu, so her stepmother decided to go all the way and arranged for Shen Xiangyi to be given to the Crown Prince…
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After being reborn, Shen Xiangyi carefully spent ten years making her plans:
In this life, she would avenge her mother. She would reclaim the heroine’s fate that had been stolen from her, and get back the male lead who had been taken from her, too.
After half a year back in the Shen household, everyone in the capital gradually came to know Shen Xiangyi as the most sweet-tempered, obedient daughter in the city of Jingzhou, with the most vicious stepmother and older sister…
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Before marriage
Shen Xiangyi: What am I to you? Your old flame’s little sister, or just a way to pass the time?
Pei Yu: You’re nothing to me.
After marriage
Pei Yu: You were the one who fell for me first. Why are you smiling at another man now?
