The Cool and Refined Gentleman Is Good at Scamming People

[Sharp-Tongued Beauty Lover, Career-Driven Orphan vs. Scheming Green-Tea Love Fool of a Young Master]

After transmigrating into a book as a cannon-fodder character, Jin Xi wanted only to find a husband to marry into her family.

She met a concubine-born son of a wealthy merchant. He was handsome and talented, yet unloved and seemingly always bullied.

He said he had few friends, so Jin Xi became his only one.

But Jin Xi felt that she and this man were at odds, because whenever he was around her, he would end up injured or fainting.

She had already decided to cut ties with him, but a Daoist priest told her that he could only survive when she was by his side.

Unable to bear the thought of the beauty suffering, Jin Xi decided to marry him into her family.

But the beauty had deceived her.

He was actually the legitimate eldest son of the Duke of Wei and Chief Councillor Cui,

and a favorite of the current emperor.

He was crafty and had been lying to her all along.

Someone told her that he had faked his identity because he looked down on her background and planned to keep a mistress under false pretenses.

A mistress? She might as well be dead.

Forget it, she should run.

Even the bold fear the weight of power.

Jin Xi had no choice but to pack her things and flee in the middle of the night.

Years later, she was wealthy beyond measure.

She heard that Cui Hu's father had fallen from power.

She planned to return to Wuling and build her fortune there,

but on the road she ran into a man trying to mooch off her.

Oh, it was an old acquaintance.

She laughed. "Young Master Cui, even your wildest dreams aren't as audacious as you are. Not even bandits on the road are as good at getting under my skin. I already have a child, so what are you butting in for?"

Cui Hu begged, dropping to his knees at every step. "Xi'er, please, show me some kindness and make an exception. I have no one left. Every day is misery, every night unbearable. I ask for little. I only beg to join this family."

She refuses to bow to fate, but that doesn't mean she wants to challenge it.

The heroine is sharp-tongued but knows her limits; the hero is scheming but humble.

One-on-one romance | Both leads are pure

Theme: Every minute, death is a possibility, but to still be alive is truly something to be grateful for.