[Both leads are devoted to each other + the hero grovels to win her back + ruthless pursuit + she runs away while pregnant + fake and real heiresses] In her third year as the chief minister’s mistress, Jiang Tang is approached by the real heiress. It turns out she was the heiress who was switched at birth, while the real heiress is Xiao Hechuan’s childhood sweetheart and the apple of the chief minister’s eye.
On the eve of his wedding, Xiao Hechuan pins her to the bed and says casually, “Once Ayue joins the household, you’ll behave yourself as a concubine.”
Jiang Tang looks at his stony profile and smiles as she agrees.
Everyone knows that Chief Minister Xiao holds power over the court and is ruthless, yet he dotes on the real heiress. The fake heiress is merely a songbird he keeps in a cage, and sooner or later he’ll throw her out.
Later, Jiang Tang disappears without a trace in a great fire, leaving behind only a charred jade hairpin.
On the day he learns she is dead, the decisive Chief Minister Xiao vomits a mouthful of blood from his heart.
Three years later, in a water town south of the Yangtze.
Jiang Tang takes the hand of a cherubic little child and looks at the powerful minister before her, eyes red and kneeling in disarray. She smiles with calm indifference.
“Sir, you have the wrong person.”
Xiao Hechuan’s eyes are bloodshot. He clutches the hem of her clothes, utterly humbled.
“Tangtang, come home with me. I’ll give you my life.”
