Liu Yingxue is the fake heiress of a marquis’s household. Raised in an opera troupe, she is brought back to the marquis’s home, where the real heiress, Zhen Mingzhu, weeps and kneels before her. The whole capital is waiting to laugh at her, expecting her to slink out in disgrace. No one knows that in her previous life, she was an acting maniac who had won every Best Actress award. The real heiress plays the victim? Liu Yingxue acts even more pitifully. Her stepmother poisons her? She plays the poisoning so convincingly, you’d think she really had been poisoned. Everyone thinks she’s a soft touch they can manipulate, but only Shen Yanzhou sees through her act. He corners her against a wall and asks when she’ll finally perform a genuine scene. Liu Yingxue smiles and says, “The day I make every actor in the capital cry.”
