Spring Comes to a Withered Tree

Three years ago, Lin Qiunan, the legitimate daughter of a marquis's household, eloped for love.

Three years later, her husband openly takes a legal wife.

Faced with her husband's betrayal and her sharp-tongued mother-in-law,

Lin Qiunan smiles. "You really think I can't pick up a knife anymore?"

After returning home, she's ready to look up an old friend.

The first person she wants to find is, of course, the young lady next door.

But then

"Our heir has been frail and sickly since childhood, so we raised him as a girl."

Lin Qiunan: ?!

1. Not for readers who insist on both leads being virgins.

2. No logic, lots of plot holes, and the heroine is a Mary Sue.

3. The official ranks and such are all made up.

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