The Scheming Heiress Is Also Falling for Me

Reunion After Years Apart | Unrequited Love Comes True | Sweet Romance | Mutual Healing | Both Leads Have Only Been With Each Other

[Blurb]

A scheming younger woman who pursues relentlessly

A clear-eyed, tragic yet strong veterinarian who loses herself in love

When Ren Yining was a child, a beautiful older girl told her, "Love can overcome every hardship, so love is what matters most."

Ten years later, Ren Yining, now the heir to a corporation, reunites with that beautiful older girl as if by fate at an animal hospital.

She decides to offer her all-consuming, unconditional love,

to gamble on the two of them loving each other.

But rumors are flying around their social circle. Everyone says He Yu'an is a scheming woman after money and power.

Ren Yining doesn't believe them.

Curled up in the beautiful older girl's arms, her eyes full of hurt, she asks:

"...Big sis, do you really not like me at all? You really don't want to be with me?"

He Yu'an turns to meet those reddened eyes and can only give in, softening her voice:

"Aren't you afraid I'm the scheming woman they say I am?"

Ren Yining's gaze falls on the corner of He Yu'an's lips.

"Those ordinary fools don't understand love at all."

But after a few months immersed in the sweet bliss of their relationship, Ren Yining keeps feeling that something is wrong.

When they're together, her older girlfriend smiles warmly, but keeps drifting off.

When they hug, they're pressed close, but her breathing always trembles.

Ren Yining thinks she's just overthinking things.

Until the beautiful older girl's creditor comes knocking. She drops her mask and pretends to be casual as she says:

"I'm selfish and despicable. I have no sincerity in me. Every version of me you've fallen in love with is fake."

Ren Yining looks at her and suddenly smiles.

After waiting so long, her older girlfriend has finally said it.

"...Are you finished?"

He Yu'an freezes.

"Tell me which He Yu'an is real, and I'll love that one."

Only then does she press He Yu'an onto the bed, burying her face against her chest as she murmurs:

"...I'll love the fake ones, too."

[Short Scene]

One night, a long time later.

He Yu'an rests her head on Ren Yining's lap, idly playing with a button on her pajamas as she quietly asks a question she's kept in her heart for a long time:

"How can you forgive someone who betrayed and deceived you?"

The moonlight outside is faint, and the wind is soft, just like the night they first met years ago.

Ren Yining lowers her head and kisses He Yu'an.

"Doctor He, love can't overcome every hardship..."

"But two people in love can."

Sincere feelings mixed with falsehood? NO!

Falsehood giving rise to true feelings? Magnificent!

[Upcoming Story] She Came from a Painting

A cool, proud professor/general

An obsessive little ray-of-sunshine painter/princess

Ren Jianyue paints scenery and objects, but never people.

Until she draws her first portrait from the audience seats in a history lecture and gives it to Wen Qiuchi.

But Wen Qiuchi isn't impressed. She pushes up her glasses and hands the portrait back.

"Student, that's a pretty old-fashioned way to hit on someone."

Sensing the hostility, Ren Jianyue's eyes curve into a smile. "Professor Wen, I'm not your student. You're the one who's got it wrong."

And so the two become enemies.

Later, during an earthquake, Ren Jianyue is buried in an ancient tomb never mentioned in the historical records.

A half-destroyed mural in the tomb sends her to the Great Qing Dynasty a thousand years in the past.

When she opens her eyes again, someone is taking her to meet her future husband against her will.

The door opens, revealing a familiar face.

Ren Jianyue folds her arms and drawls, "You look like someone I've met before."

The general bows, suppressing a laugh in her voice. "Little princess, your way of hitting on people is as old-fashioned as ever."

In their five years of marriage, they are the young couple everyone in Yaoyun City envies.

No one knows the general is a woman, except her.

And no one knows every portrait in the study was painted by her.

They think they can keep their secret and live out their lives together.

Until someone exposes the fact that Wen Qiuchi has been living as a man.

From then on, merit becomes a mistake, and loyalty becomes a crime.

She is thrown into the imperial prison and sentenced to the harshest punishment.

On the night before the execution, Ren Jianyue sits outside the iron door. A little moonlight slips through the cracks in the wall, and she draws Wen Qiuchi's features, stroke by stroke.

When she's finished, she tears the paper in two and slips the other half into Wen Qiuchi's bloodstained palm.

"Wen Qiuchi, I'll get you out of here."

"If I succeed, the two of us will never be apart again."

"If I fail, I'll go with you, even to the ends of the underworld."

[Short Scene]

Ren Jianyue wakes after three months in a coma, and the first thing she does is drag Wen Qiuchi abroad to get married.

Her mother and younger sister can only stare in disbelief: ?

Abroad, Ren Jianyue wraps an arm around Wen Qiuchi's shoulder and kisses the corner of her lips again and again.

"Aren't you still missing one thing you owe me?"

Wen Qiuchi raises an eyebrow, teasing her on purpose.

"You're right, I still owe you one thing."

As she speaks, she slides a ring she prepared earlier onto Wen Qiuchi's ring finger.

"Long live the princess."

[Reading Guide]

1. One-on-one romance, happy ending, mutual healing and secret love. Everything serves the romance.

2. The younger woman is not her real sister. They are three years apart in age. The older woman has been hurt in the past and will be healed by the younger woman.

3. The younger woman only uses tricks to win over her older girlfriend, who still thinks she's a cute, sweet, obedient little darling.

4. The angst is only at the beginning. Overall, it's sweet, sweet, sweet!

5. Both are devoted only to each other, body and soul. The hardships of the past make the sweetness of the present possible.

Theme: Love can overcome every hardship.