[Push and pull] [Not a mindless power fantasy] [Emotion-driven] She falls off a cliff while bungee jumping and wakes up in ancient times. Li Wanxin opens her eyes only to be struck with a whip, and finds herself a lowly servant in a prince’s household, where life is cheap.
The real Second Young Lady has been killed by bandits. With a cold blade at her throat, the icy heir apparent An Tingyan makes her a pawn in a scheme to marry into the palace in the dead girl’s place:
“If you’re found out, you die.”
How laughable.
Could the nobles of ancient times really control a modern woman like her?
She tears down her first cousin’s facade, wins over the princess’s connections, foils a Taoist priest’s frame-up, and stuns everyone at a family banquet with a dance. Step by step, she turns the capital upside down.
The Crown Prince offers her a place in the Eastern Palace, while the Fourth Young Master secretly paves her way and protects her. The capital’s nobility all scramble to curry favor with her.
Become a consort in the palace?
Li Wanxin twirls her handkerchief and smiles, a carefree glint in her eyes.
“Whoever wants to be a pawn can go do it themselves.”
Later, the heir apparent, a man known for his cold and indifferent heart, blocks the entrance to her courtyard with his seal of office in hand. Eyes red, he pleads in a hoarse voice:
“Wanxin, will you be my wife?”
