When the Fake Benefactor’s Cover Is Blown, the Possessive Heir Drops the Act

Jiang Zhuowan died a horrible death in her previous life. For three years, she pretended to be the woman who had saved the impoverished heir of the Duke of Guo's household, Xiao Yanheng, tricking him into marrying her. She raised a ruckus at every turn and basked in his affection. Then the real savior returned, and a letter of divorce sent her packing. Unwilling to give up, she clung to him desperately, until she became the laughingstock of the entire capital and was drowned in the city moat.

When she opened her eyes again, she was back in the second spring after her lies had yet to be exposed, while Xiao Yanheng was still hauling heavy loads at the docks.

After experiencing the terror of death, Jiang Zhuowan finally came to her senses: being reborn doesn't give you a new brain. She knows she's not clever, so she might as well keep playing the vain, difficult beauty she was in her previous life while secretly saving as much money as she can! She makes medicinal sachets, boils up frostbite ointment, and takes odd jobs at an herbal shop. Once she has saved twenty taels of silver, she'll make a clean getaway and never cling to him again!

But just as her little nest egg is growing and she counts down every day, wondering when the Duke of Guo's household will come to take this great man off her hands, the man who heads to the docks before dawn every day to haul heavy loads, his hands covered in calluses, begins to look at her with an ever more inscrutable gaze. He even silently shields her from every storm and hands over every last copper coin he earns.

At last, the day comes when she has saved enough silver and is ready to slip away in the dead of night.

But the heir, now dressed in a dark brocade robe and wearing a stern expression, blocks her carriage at the city gate.

He tosses aside the silver coins she worked so hard to save. In his eyes burns an intense emotion she cannot understand, along with a madness held tightly in check. “Wanwan, you've carried the lie this far. Why not see it through to the end?”