After transmigrating into the book The Beloved Di Daughter, Shen Zhao only wanted to flip the table and quit.
No more chasing the prince, no more tormenting the heroine. The poison wine and cold palace could go to whoever wanted them.
But when she opened the book, she learned that she wasn't the one who died most horribly.
It was Xie Linchuan, the aloof, powerful minister who had done nothing wrong from beginning to end.
He died in volume three, taking a blade meant for someone else.
On the day she tore up the marriage contract, Shen Zhao pushed through the people filling the courtyard and held half a sweet osmanthus cake to his lips.
“Open up.”
Xie Linchuan: ...I don't eat sweets.
Shen Zhao: I don't believe you. Your ears are turning red.
Later
He said one thing and meant another: “Miss Shen, please behave with propriety.”
She stepped closer and closer. “Propriety? Then why do you keep sneaking glances at me?”
He picked the ginger out of her bowl. She spent two hours making him soup.
He sat on a chair in the outer room of her home all night. She slept in his office until morning.
They made a deal: a three-year arrangement, each getting what they wanted.
He wrote in the contract: You won't fall for me, and neither will I.
But with every page that changed, the book grew fainter.
The last page was blank.
In the footer, in tiny letters, were words in her own handwriting:
“Don't save him.”
Later, another line appeared beneath them:
“He'll die for you.”
The fifteenth day of the third month was the day the book said she would die.
It was also the day he planned to tell her something.
【Transmigrate into a book + sweet romance + bold and flirtatious + aloof powerful minister + 1v1, both leads are virgins】
