She Lies About Carrying the Abstinent Young Minister's Child, and He Believes Her

[Fake pregnancy as a pretext + satisfying revenge on scumbags + making money and solving a case + both leads are virgins + one-on-one romance]

From the start, her own second uncle sells her off as a concubine for five hundred taels, and the wedding sedan is already blocking the alley!

Yu Tang doesn’t cry or make a fuss. With a white jade thumb ring she swiped from a man a month earlier tucked away, she kneels directly in front of the horse of Pei Zhi, an assistant minister of the Court of Judicial Review... “Lord Pei, I’m carrying your child!”

One is a greedy, cowardly drama queen who never tells the truth; the other is a cold-blooded enforcer with Buddhist prayer beads around his wrist.

The whole capital bets on when Yu Tang will be exposed and thrown out.

They wait and wait, only to see her use her “nonexistent” pregnancy to:

Day 1: hijack the Liu family’s wedding sedan.

Day 3: reclaim her maid’s contract and expose the second branch of the family for embezzling their property.

Day 30: get away unscathed with all six trunks of her dowry, send the villains who forced her into marriage to prison, and grandly reopen her late mother’s silk shop!

With her dowry secured and the wrongful case resolved, Yu Tang hurriedly packs a small bundle and prepares to fake her death and run away. “My lord, it turns out there are baked buns in my belly. I’m not pregnant. Goodbye!”

But the usually cold and heartless Lord Pei blocks the entrance to her shop with box after box of betrothal gifts. He removes his prayer beads and closes in step by step. “You used me and now you want to run?

You cried in the street that you’d live or die together with my child. Now you have to carry it, whether you’re pregnant or not!”