Blurb:
Gentle, frail, and two-faced transmigrator heroine x composed, clearheaded man who pretends to be aloof as he falls
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In the twenty-first century, Lin Ji works diligently and waits for retirement.
In an unknown dynasty, Lin Ji works day and night around a stone mill just to make a living.
Unfortunately, fate has other plans.
One day, Lin Ji transmigrates into Lin Ji.
Good news: This tofu seller is fair-skinned and beautiful, naturally alluring, with a pair of doe eyes that can steal your soul.
Bad news: Her husband died because of the trouble her beautiful body brought upon them.
Worse news: Lin Ji has no memories of the original Lin Ji.
All she can learn from the townspeople is this:
Lin Ji and her husband were a loving couple who had a son together.
Their son is now three years old, but her husband was hacked to death by bandits. The shock killed Lin Ji, and she followed her husband to the grave.
Having taken over a dead woman's body, Lin Ji has no choice but to shoulder the burden of raising a child and supporting a family.
Fortunately, the couple's tofu shop is doing well, and the neighbors take pity on a widow with a young child and give her plenty of help.
But...
The tall, burly inspector who has suddenly appeared keeps coming by more and more often, claiming it's for the investigation.
At first, he suspects there is more to her husband's death than meets the eye. Later, the way he looks at her grows increasingly improper.
He chases away thugs for her, rescues her from danger, repairs her house in the rain, helps her with the mill, buys her a mule, and takes her riding and flower-viewing.
And finally... he helps her ease her loneliness at night.
Just as Lin Ji thinks life will go on like this,
her husband, who was hacked to death, comes back...
On one side is her "husband," who gently says, "It's all right. You need only be willing to come home, my wife," while carrying multiple murders on his back.
On the other is a man who watches coldly by day as the couple play at marital harmony, then sneaks in at night, pins her against the edge of the bed, and demands again and again to know whom she truly loves.
All she feels is a chill down her spine.
Both men are like evil spirits, using her more than loving her.
Only she, the one being manipulated, is played like a fool in the palms of their hands.
But once her memories return, she learns the truth:
She had entered this game willingly long ago...
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The Xie clan is a distinguished family known throughout the capital.
Xie Dingyao, a brilliant young man favored by fate, studied under the head of the Court of Judicial Review. His life went smoothly until he suffered his first setback in the seventeenth year of the Dayong dynasty.
Because of his negligence, a case became unsolved.
Years later, when he unexpectedly obtains a new lead in the old case, he heads without hesitation to a small town in Jiangnan to investigate and clear his name.
But the key to the case lies with a woman.
A woman who has lost her memory, is frail and delicate, and has just become a widow...
At first, he approaches her time and again only so that she can identify the criminal if her memories return. He has no intention of crossing any boundaries.
But later...
Was the rain that night simply too fierce?
Or was the fragrance of peach blossoms in the town too intoxicating?
Somehow, he ends up taking on the role of her lover for real.
Everything will have to be reconsidered...
Note:
1. The heroine is not a virgin, the hero is; one-on-one romance, happy ending.
2. Not a power-fantasy story with a strong heroine.
3. The blurb contains misleading information.
4. No unhealthy messages. To avoid spoilers, all I can say is that there is no mistress and no marriage is broken up.
Theme: A beautiful life is right within reach.
