Before the age of sixteen, Yu Jin had never had a single worry. The most doted-on young master of the Grand Preceptor's household, he was born with everything. Though he was a poor student with an empty head, his exquisite looks and illustrious family made him the unattainable dream match every young nobleman in the capital hoped to marry.
But at some point, Yu Jin began to notice that the gazes once fixed on him were gradually disappearing. In just a few days, he became a useless menace whom everyone avoided. Even his loving family started looking at him coldly, and he couldn't understand what he had done wrong.
It all began when the family gained a "true young master."
When Shen Huai Xiang opens his eyes again, he finds himself returned to twenty years earlier.
At this point, he is just a student from a small town who has come to study at the Imperial College. He has no power or connections.
In his previous life, he followed his childhood sweetheart, to whom he had been promised in marriage since they were young, all the way to the capital for the imperial examinations. After finally establishing himself in court through great effort, he was cruelly abandoned by that sweetheart, who had suddenly become the Grand Preceptor's true young master. From then on, Shen Huai Xiang's nature changed, becoming twisted and vicious.
Even after he became a powerful minister, he still couldn't let it go. In the end, his new ruler had his family confiscated and slaughtered, and his bones ground to dust for his merciless and ruthless conduct.
Reborn once more, Shen Huai Xiang turns his gaze toward the Grand Preceptor's household again, but without the obsessive urge for revenge that consumed him in his previous life.
When he sees Yu Jin, the impoverished "fake young master" abandoned by the household, he feels nothing. This beauty, who once caused a sensation throughout the capital, was driven from the Grand Preceptor's home the year Shen Huai Xiang passed the highest imperial examination. With nowhere to turn, he threw himself into a well and died. Shen Huai Xiang never got the chance to meet him.
Both have been abandoned by those they cherished most, but a second chance at life brings them together.
They meet, bow before the altar, and marry. It all seems to happen naturally.
Yu Jin is pure-hearted and gentle, and seems to have no worries at all. He is unfortunate enough, however, to have Shen Huai Xiang, a vindictive and ruthless man, as his husband.
Shen Huai Xiang will get back everything Yu Jin was owed, sooner or later.
A twisted, unhinged, controlling, domineering feudal top x an innocent, naive, empty-headed, gentle beauty bottom.
A novel that blends a whole bunch of popular melodramatic tropes: stand-ins, unattainable dream lovers, true and fake heirs, transmigration into a book, rebirth, and more. It's already a complete mess, so we might as well drink it while it's hot.
Theme: Even in adversity, remain resilient and keep loving life.
