She Rose from the Dust, and He Put Her on a Pedestal

She is the only legitimate daughter of the century-old Li family in Ling City, yet fate played a cruel joke on her from the moment she was born. Swapped at birth, misunderstood, and ostracized, she grew up under her family’s cold stares and survived the world’s scorn, armoring herself like a hedgehog as she struggled alone in the dark. He is the most dazzling genius of a family of doctors: cool-headed and self-possessed, he despises her status as an “illegitimate daughter,” yet is forced to register their marriage. Living under the same roof, the two can’t stand each other. He thinks she is a scheming villainess; she believes his heart belongs to someone else. Then, during the earthquake that shook the world, everyone saw her shield an unfamiliar child with her own body, and he realized he had never truly understood her. As she lay amid the rubble, covered in wounds, he finally understood: the girl he had looked down on had long since blossomed into the most beautiful flower in the dust.