The Runaway Heiress Returns Home

When the eldest daughter, Bai Pengpeng, returned after leaving home three years earlier, she stopped competing with her younger sister for their family’s affection and deferred to her in everything.

Her family was delighted, thinking Bai Pengpeng had finally grown up.

Then the Regent returned to the capital in a fury after a year away investigating a case.

A lawless bandit had been committing crimes all over the place: not only had they “stolen” one hundred thousand taels of gold from the prefect’s family, they had also “framed” the imperial examination proctor for leaking and selling exam papers, and even “blown up” the empress’s uncle’s iron mine!

The Regent had spent a year laying trap after trap, yet still hadn’t caught the thief. Reliable sources said the thief had slipped into the capital and disguised herself as a noble young lady.

The Regent immediately decided to invite every eligible young lady in the capital to a banquet and lure the thief into the open.

When word spread that the Regent was holding a selection banquet for a consort, Bai Pengpeng’s family ordered her to impersonate her younger sister and win him over with her exquisite zither playing, helping her sister fulfill her dream of becoming the Regent’s Consort.

Bai Pengpeng obediently did as she was told.

But her terrified sister burst into tears: “My lord, it really wasn’t me! It was Bai Pengpeng!”

Only later did everyone learn that the Regent had already dealt with all the corrupt officials.

He had held the banquet to catch the female thief who had stolen his heart and forced herself on him!

Later, Bai Pengpeng became the Regent’s Consort, and he cherished her to the very depths of his being!

As for the family who had treated Bai Pengpeng like dirt, they were sent to the frontier in tears.