Do Honest People Have to Deal with Inner-Residence Feuds Too? I'll Pass

Shi Weilan had been the most outstanding girl in Wangjia Village since childhood. After living an honest, ordinary life for over a decade, she was suddenly told she was the real daughter of the Changning Marquis's household, switched at birth.

She happily went to the capital to reunite with her family, thinking that more people would love and cherish her. Instead, she was met with criticism from her birth parents and the fake heiress's veiled barbs.

At first, Shi Weilan didn't understand. She was always straightforward, which only made everyone uncomfortable. After it happened enough times, she realized that they criticized her so much because they disliked her.

But she didn't care. Their fault-finding wasn't because she wasn't good enough, only because they didn't love her. There was so much love in the world. If she couldn't find it here, she'd look elsewhere.

What she never expected was that someone would care so deeply about the neglect and indignities she herself had barely given a thought to.

He was tall and imposing, and when he wore a grim expression, he looked downright ferocious. Even her birth parents had to humble themselves before him. Shi Weilan knew at a glance that he was someone she couldn't afford to offend, and she wished she could stay as far away from him as possible.

But the man seemed unable to understand her avoidance. No matter how much she dodged or brushed him off, he was just as warm toward her the next time. Yet he was also so attentive that he noticed every slight she suffered and was determined to get justice for her.

He was clearly powerful and high-ranking, fierce and arrogant, yet he grew anxious and insecure when others said he wasn't good enough for Shi Weilan.

After more than a decade of living an honest, ordinary life, Shi Weilan was finally at a loss.

For three generations, Jian He had come from humble, peasant stock. But in his generation, his ancestors' graves seemed to smoke with good fortune. He joined a vassal prince's uprising, earned the highest merit in helping him claim the throne, rose rapidly through the ranks, and became the Secretariat Director. Everyone said that once a man had achieved success, it was time to take a virtuous wife and beautiful concubines, but he simply didn't get it.

Until the day he met Shi Weilan, who had come to the capital to reunite with her family. At first sight, he liked her so much that he forgot even his own surname.

His whole life, he had drifted with the current, putting down roots wherever fate carried him. This was the one time he desperately wanted to stay for someone.

He never expected that the woman he wanted to cherish in his hands and hold close to his heart would be unloved by her own birth parents.

She didn't care, but Jian He couldn't stand by and watch her suffer undeserved humiliation and cold treatment. He was determined to make things right for her, one grievance at a time.

Moral: People criticize you not because you aren't good enough, but because they don't love you enough.