The Crown Prince Was Sold to a Duck Shop, but the Villainess Started Crying

Transmigrate into a book + sweet romance + wealthy family + comeback + Beijing elite circle + redemption + everyday warmth. The moment Shen Nianxi transmigrates into the book as the villainess, she's clutching a contract of sale. In three days, she's supposed to sell the bankrupt heir, Fu Shenyuan, to a brothel to pay off his debts. In the original story, the villainess takes the money and sells him. Six months later, the male lead returns to his wealthy family and throws her into a pigsty deep in the mountains, where she dies of the stench. Shen Nianxi doesn't want to die, and she certainly doesn't want to die in a pigsty. She tears up the contract and starts earnestly “making amends”: she earns money by selling her paintings on the street to support him, waits up for him late at night, and secretly pays off his debts. But this fool, though she'd once “sold” him, still carries her to the hospital when she has a fever, gives her bandages when the cold cracks her hands, and shields her when a gang of thugs corners her. “Fu Shenyuan, don't you hate me?” After a long silence, he takes a worn copy of The Little Prince from his coat. Inside is the wrapper from the steamed bun the original owner tossed to him three years ago. “Nian Nian, my life has belonged to you for a long time.” Later, the male lead returns to his wealthy family, and news of his arranged marriage is everywhere. She quietly leaves behind a painting: “The star should return to the sky.” Two years later, at her solo exhibition, an unfamiliar painting hangs in the center of the gallery: a laborer carrying bricks at a construction site, signed with an “F” in the lower-right corner. A familiar voice comes from behind her. “Shen Nianxi, I spent two years learning to paint. Every stroke is about you.” She turns and sees the man who once was covered in dust, paintbrush in hand and eyes red. He says, “This time, let me paint you.”