A fake con artist, real coward, runaway maid with a child VS a hypocritical, gloomy, rotten young master
#The Young Master Became Depressed After I Swindled Him and Ran Away
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After a car accident, Cui E wakes up in the body of a lowly maid in the Cui residence.
She spends winters washing clothes and summers tending the fire, laboring day and night.
Outside the residence, her parasitic family is waiting to take her wages.
The maids in the residence are bound by contracts of servitude, and can only leave if their masters grant them permission.
Faced with a life whose end she can see from the start, Cui E, who has always been honest and well-behaved, develops a crooked idea for the first time.
As it happens, the Cui family's second young master, Cui Zhang, returns home after being sent to the countryside to recover from an illness.
Cui Zhang, twenty years old and courtesy name Yanyu, is as refined as his name suggests. He has a handsome, radiant face, clear eyes, and brows like distant mountains. When he looks at people, his gaze is like a spring breeze in March. He is known for his kindness, and the servants in the residence have plenty of praise for him.
When Cui E sees Cui Zhang's gentle, harmless face, her crooked idea reaches its peak.
Her plan proceeds methodically, and perhaps thanks to an incredible stroke of luck, it succeeds.
Cui Zhang is almost indulgent toward her, even placing his family's heirloom jade bracelet on her wrist. There is only one thing he forbids: leaving the Cui residence.
Cui E puts on a coy voice and leans against him. "Yanyu, that gold hairpin is so pretty." He places it in her hair. She looks up and meets Cui Zhang's dark, deep-set eyes.
Lately, Cui Zhang has been spending more and more time with her, and Cui E feels increasingly uneasy.
If he discovers that she has been using him all along, things certainly won't end well for her.
Cui E pats her bulging purse and runs away.
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Cui Zhang was abandoned in the countryside as a child. He considers himself cold-hearted, and maintains his gentle, refined facade only because it benefits him.
As for Cui E, the maid who has eyes only for gold and jewels and clearly has ulterior motives, he has always looked down on people like her. He watches her use her clumsy tricks, intending to toy with her.
But love is the one thing in this world that no one can control.
By the time he comes to his senses, the little liar he had trapped has escaped.
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When he sees her again, only one thought fills Cui Zhang's mind: lock her up so she can never escape him again.
Her eyes are filled with terror, and tears and snot run down her face, yet all she can say is, "Please spare me."
"No, Cui E. Lies always have to be paid for." Cui Zhang wipes away the tear at the corner of her eye, catches her soft red lips, and kisses her.
Reading guide:
1. Both leads are each other's only partner. The heroine is three years older than the hero. Happy ending.
2. Neither lead is perfect, and both have moral flaws. She lies to take his money and win his heart; he is a lovesick fool who throws himself at her and goes mad for love.
3. She runs away while pregnant.
Theme: Face life with an optimistic attitude
