Cold-Hearted Maid & Younger, Needy Playboy
Blurb: Jing Fu transmigrates to ancient times and spends two years as a maid in the marquis's estate. She is finally close to saving enough money to leave the household.
At a banquet, Jing Fu accompanies her young mistress, but the host takes a liking to her. She is spared only thanks to the help of a famed upright official in Shengjing.
But Jing Fu knows an endless abyss awaits her. Rather than face it, she decides to take a gamble and makes a desperate escape from the estate.
Before she can get out of the city, the marquis's servants find her. Just when Jing Fu is in despair, the young master who saved her that day rescues her again.
He takes her in, and only after returning to his residence with him does she learn she mistook him for someone else.
The man who rescued her at the banquet was not the upright official at all, but his twin brother, He Shichao.
He is a notorious playboy in Shengjing.
He Shichao is bewitched by a beautiful maid and offends people without hesitation to bring her back to his residence. He thinks that since he saved her, it's only right that she give herself to him.
But after Jing Fu coaxes him into giving her the contract of indenture, all she wants is to escape.
The good-natured He Shichao finally loses his patience and drags her back.
He gives her a cold, tooth-baring smile. "Where do you think you're running this time?"
The last time Jing Fu runs away, He Shichao spends two years searching for her, his hair turning white before he finds her. But she has already married someone else and refuses to go back with him, no matter what he says.
He Shichao realizes her heart is hard as stone and finally gives in:
"Fu Niang, don't leave me. I'll even be your kept man."
Guide: Coercive pursuit.
Not a strong female lead.
Emotion-focused. The heroine is already a maid from the start. The heroine has no romantic experience, while the hero does. Younger man. The hero is a thoroughly traditional man from ancient times. He is instinctively attracted to the heroine. A powerful man bows his head.
Theme: Meetings are rare, memories endure long
