After transmigrating into the role of a villainess, she tricked a down-on-his-luck heir into becoming her laborer. The night she finally saved enough money to ask for a divorce, he couldn’t keep up the act any longer!
[Historical romance / play the pig to eat the tiger / marriage before love / groveling pursuit of a wife / both leads are devoted only to each other / sweet romance]
In the original story, the heroine saved the gravely wounded Pei family heir, Pei Yanzhou, and lied that they were married.
She hid him in a remote town and made him do all the chores, from washing clothes to cooking. Later, the heir settled the score, and the heroine died miserably in the street.
When Jiang Ying opened her eyes after transmigrating, she saw a man washing clothes over a wooden basin, and her last shred of hope died.
To stay alive, Jiang Ying had no choice but to keep the lie going. She worked hard at the broker’s to save money for travel expenses, all while watching for signs that he might regain his memory and planning to flee beyond the passes.
But when the day finally came to sign the divorce papers and run, the man grabbed her and pulled her back, eyes red.
His gaze was dangerous as he gripped her waist. “You’ve finished deceiving me, and now you think you can run?”
Jiang Ying was stunned. Seriously, when had this man secretly regained his memory?
Pei Yanzhou gave a cold laugh and stepped closer. “When did I ever say I’d lost my memory?”
After Pei Yanzhou returned to the capital, a friend asked him, “She tricked you into living in the countryside and put you through so much hardship. How are you going to get back at her?”
Pei Yanzhou replied coolly, “She knew I was pretending, but she still stayed with me.”
