The Heir's Consort with Two Souls

The most expensive female thief in Bianjing was beaten to death while inside a corpse.

When she woke up, she discovered that the corpse belonged to the illegitimate daughter of a general's household, and the girl's consciousness hadn't left yet.

Shang Xiaoman's business was "smuggling people out of cages": stealing women trapped in their husbands' households and setting them free. No one in Bianjing knew her real name. They only called her A Du. A thief trusts no one and won't live three days, but she remembers the face of everyone she's met and every last account.

On the seventh day of the third month, an estate manager from the Chi family offered three hundred taels for her to steal a young lady out of the city. She sneaked into a ruined temple outside the city and was pinned to an earthen wall by an arrow. Someone dug her out of a haystack and said, "It's done. Miss, you survived."

She hadn't woken up in her own body. She was inside the corpse of a seventeen-year-old girl. The body belonged to Lu Mingyu, the third young lady of the general's household. Half a month ago, she had been engaged to the Chi family. Half a month ago, she had been poisoned to death on the eve of her coming-of-age ceremony.

Worse, someone else was inside this body too.

Lu Mingyu didn't want to leave. Her memories, her hatred, and all the questions she never got to ask seeped into Shang Xiaoman's mind.

The legitimate eldest son of the Chi family, Chi Yu, who had bought her, was waiting for his "unharmed fiancée" to arrive. He knew from the first day that she wasn't Lu Mingyu, but he never asked.

She had to stay in a body that could wake up at any moment, play a girl she didn't know, and deceive a man even harder to fool than she was.

She had only one rule she couldn't break: don't touch children.

And one more she added later: don't tell that lie.