Shen Lingyi is reborn into a story about a real and fake heiress as a disposable side character. The day the real heiress returns to the family, Shen Lingyi is jilted, struck from the family register, and even the weaving workshop her adoptive mother left her is to be taken away as part of someone else's dowry. In the original story, she spends half her life clinging to her betrothal, only to die in a fire set by the villain.
She looks at the unopened wedding gown and decides to live differently. She won't fight over a marriage; an old wedding gown can be altered, lost patterns can be recreated, and she'll reclaim everything her mother left her, one piece at a time.
To get back the old workshop that had been handed over when she agreed to marry, she advertises for a live-in son-in-law. The man wears clothes washed nearly white, is brilliant with numbers, and has only one demand: he wants to inspect the damaged kesi silk garment in the workshop.
She agrees readily. But as she signs the marriage contract, she sees his real name: Pei Zhaoye. The villain who burned down her home at the end of the original story.
With half the contract written, the man looks up at her.
