After Switching Souls with My Refined Cousin

A young cousin has just arrived at the Xue residence. As delicate as a flower and frail as a willow, she can be startled into palpitations if someone speaks too loudly. She often wanders around with a deathly pale face. People outside the Xue residence whisper that perhaps they've brought home a female ghost. Inside, people gossip that the delicate young lady who came to mooch off the family might be here to save up for her own coffin. Cen Yun Zheng simply keeps her door shut, quietly and obediently recuperating, and never gets involved. Until she and her cousin, rumored to be a man of astonishing status, switch souls. Cen Yun Zheng panics. Surely the identity she's hidden for so long can't be exposed just like that? Xue Nan Qin is the eldest young master of the Xue family, aloof, stern, and distinguished. Despite his youth, he already holds a high position. But just because he looked a little too long at his cousin drowning in the lake, he gets dragged in after her. When he wakes up again, he's become his frail, sickly cousin, who supposedly won't live past twenty. Beside him, his cousin, now in his body, is sobbing pitifully as if she's about to cry herself to death. Xue Nan Qin, seeing his own face make that expression for the first time: ... * Xue Nan Qin is prepared for his cousin's body to hold him back. So... When someone provokes him, he tries to keep his temper in check so he doesn't get so angry he faints. But the moment he puts a little strength into his hand, the chopsticks crumble to dust. When someone goads him into playing pitch-pot, he deliberately takes it easy so he won't break an arm. But a gentle toss cracks the pot. When he's pushed into the lake again, he holds his breath and waits for someone to rescue him, so he won't drown. But the moment he paddles with his hand, sheer momentum sends him “flying” several meters. Under the crowd's doubtful stares, he climbs ashore looking rosy-cheeked and healthy. Xue Nan Qin looks toward his cousin in the crowd, but she averts her gaze. Xue Nan Qin understands at once and demands to know what other secrets his cousin is hiding. She immediately raises four fingers to the sky and swears she has none. Xue Nan Qin grudgingly believes her. Until one day, after they switch back, Xue Nan Qin secretly leaves the city to capture Prince Ning, who has fled the capital. He runs into the most renowned leader of assassins in the martial world, whose eyes and brows look strangely familiar. Xue Nan Qin stays silent for a long time. Only when the assassin turns to flee does he ask, “Cen Yun Zheng, is this what you meant when you said you had no more secrets?” * After transmigrating sixteen years ago and becoming a famous assassin, Cen Yun Zheng accidentally hits her head and recovers her memories of having transmigrated into a book. It turns out this is a male-led novel with no romance, and she's the cannon-fodder cousin of the male lead. After failing to seduce him, she's driven away and eventually dies on the streets. Cen Yun Zheng sees black and immediately decides to run. But the story has already begun, and the carriage sent to fetch her has arrived outside. Looking at the gold bars and jade jewelry they've sent, Cen Yun Zheng, who's been poor for half her life, swallows hard. So she climbs into the carriage, pretends to be frail and sickly, and resolves to grab this windfall and run. Somehow, though, as she keeps playing her part, she ends up becoming the male lead's wife. Theme: Adversity reveals who you truly are