Single mom + intelligence mastermind + amnesiac male lead (sort of) + sunny little one + an upgraded groveling-to-win-her-back arc
She thought the worst thing that could happen to her was having a child out of wedlock.
She never expected the child’s father to come knocking, and to have forgotten her.
Six years ago, Shen Ruyi, the county magistrate’s daughter, was drugged and thrown into the bed of a strange man.
Six years later, she has changed her name to Shen Yunjin and opened a teahouse in Lin’an with her five-year-old “younger brother.”
No one knows that behind this soft-spoken woman lies the greatest intelligence network in Jiangnan.
That is, until Xiao Heng, heir to the Marquis of Zhennan, steps into her teahouse on imperial orders to investigate a case.
He looks at her as if she were a stranger.
She pours his tea with a perfectly steady hand.
But as Xiao Heng investigates, he uncovers the truth about that night six years ago.
He kneels before her. “I owe you an explanation.”
Shen Yunjin smiles. “And who are you?”
But her son looks up and asks, “Mister, are you my father?”
Xiao Heng’s eyes turn red.
She carried the burden alone for six years. She no longer needs anyone to take responsibility.
But he insists on spending the rest of his life making it up to her.
