After the art studio she'd run for years burned down, Jiang Tingyou, heartbroken, agreed to marry her childhood sweetheart. But on her wedding night, she transmigrated into one of her own paintings.
She was accused of marrying a strange young man. Just as she was about to bow to the elders, the cold man seated above them plunged a knife into her chest and asked, "Who gave you permission to treat me as an elder?"
The cold Crown Prince thought she had plotted against his younger brother, but she saved his life again and again. Gradually, Jiang Tingyou noticed that he was no longer as cold toward her as he had been at first.
But she cared only about saving her husband, her childhood sweetheart, who had followed her into the painting and become a painted figure. She gave no thought to anything else.
Until one day, they discovered that it had actually been her childhood sweetheart who burned down her art studio. As she despaired, the Crown Prince's younger brother said,
"My elder brother is drunk and making a scene, saying he wants to jump into the lake."
She went to look, only for the Crown Prince to point at her and scold, "The last time you got drunk, you mistook me for him."
Jiang Tingyou, with no memory of it: ?
She realized he was pretending to be drunk and turned to leave, but he pulled her onto his lap and held her tightly in his arms. One kiss made her recognize her true feelings.
Not long afterward, her hands were crippled. She sat against a wall in the rain when the Crown Prince rushed from the palace, covered in wounds, and held an umbrella over her.
She looked at him, the dream she'd just remembered almost on her lips. Before she could speak, he took her limp hands in his.
"I know. We met long ago."
[Bonus Scene]
Later, Jiang Tingyou returned to her original world with her childhood sweetheart, who had once again become a painting. Crown Prince Xiao Qianzhi followed her, but didn't seek her out right away.
He quietly investigated whether Jiang Tingyou and her childhood sweetheart had divorced, and learned they had not.
After holding back his jealousy for so long, he finally let it out and began picking fights without reason.
One day after they married, he cornered Jiang Tingyou by the door and said on his own, "My wife still thinks about him."
Jiang Tingyou: "..." She had only picked up her childhood sweetheart after he fell to the ground.
Reading Guide:
1. Both leads are each other's first and only, happy ending.
2. This story is entirely fictional and set in an imaginary world.
3. The male lead is a little possessive but very good at holding back. The female lead can beat him up, but she spoils him.
Theme: Always keep hope in your heart.
