You Said You Didn’t Like Me, So Why Is Lord Pei Jealous?

[The aloof, untouchable beauty is pulled from her pedestal + a self-serving heroine]

Jian Xier was desperately poor. Just when she had nowhere left to turn, a noblewoman approached her and offered her ten thousand taels of silver to seduce her fiance.

Jian Xier laughed three times.

First, she couldn't believe anyone could be stupid enough to push her own man into another woman's arms.

Second, the noblewoman actually thought she could seduce that famously cold beauty.

Third, “Woohoo! Ten thousand taels of silver, here I come!”

But she knew her own limits, so she set a condition.

“You have to help me.”

The noblewoman readily agreed.

On her first attempt, Jian Xier confessed bluntly: “My lord, would you like to keep a mistress? I don't want your money or your power. I just want your body.” She was promptly thrown out.

On her third attempt, she pretended to be selling herself to bury her father and let a local bully harass her. The man called the guards, and she fled in panic.

On her Nth attempt, she “found” the man after he'd been ambushed and gravely wounded...

Wasn't this taking things a bit too far?

Under the pretense of nursing him, she took every opportunity to cop a feel.

“Big brother, your pecs are amazing.” The man snapped, “Have you no shame?”

“Big brother, my heart is beating so fast. Feel it.” The man panicked. “Stop fooling around!”

At last, the noblewoman caught them in bed, her engagement to the man fell apart, and Jian Xier took her leave, mission accomplished.

Three years later, the wealthy merchant Jian Xi took her son to the capital and ran into the powerful official Pei Yanzhou. That night, he had them detained.

Pointing at the miniature version of himself, the man said in a stern voice, “Don't tell me his father is me!”

Jian Xi thought, “Hooked!”

“Big brother, why don't we have another child?” The man thought it over. “...I suppose that's not out of the question.”