Love's Illusion

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Tao Zhizhi had a smooth first twenty-four years, but then life dealt her two crushing blows in quick succession, turning her world upside down.

On the day of their engagement, her childhood sweetheart, who was about to walk with her into the engagement hall, took the hand of a sweet little white lotus he'd hidden away and ran off.

He made her the biggest laughingstock on the front page in City Z.

Her parents, who had always doted on her, suddenly turned cold.

She was abruptly told that she was the fake heiress they had raised for all these years.

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In the middle of a storm, she sat on the street in the rain, carrying nothing but a small bag, and wept bitterly.

Just as she thought she was the only poor soul left in the world, a metal wheel appeared in her line of sight.

The man's eyes and brows were gentle, the gloom of the past gone. The air around him seemed to carry a touch of warmth.

He offered her a clean handkerchief.

She sobbed, "It's all gone. I've lost everything."

He wiped away her tears. "You still have me."

With tears in her eyes, she suddenly choked up.

That's right. He'd been mocked by everyone around him since childhood and had no parents to dote on him.

The Cheng family didn't like him either, and wouldn't even give him a decent set of clothes.

He couldn't walk properly, either.

He's just as pitiful as I am.

She wiped her tears. "Yeah. Let's be little sob stories together."

And so Tao Zhizhi, thinking they were sharing both hardship and misfortune,

one day stumbled upon Cheng Xihe's seaside mansion.

And an entire floor of limited-edition designer suits.

When his secret was exposed, he got so worked up that he stood up from his wheelchair...

Tao Zhizhi: "...?!"

#Weren't we supposed to be little sob stories together? #

#Weren't we supposed to be poor, down on our luck, and unloved? #

#What about your leg condition? #

#Oh, I was faking it. #

*The female lead has an ex. If that's a dealbreaker for you, don't read this. Seriously, stay away.

*An energetic, strong-willed sweetheart x a seemingly weak but actually scheming, dark-hearted mastermind

*The blurb was revised on 2021/8/10 and a screenshot was saved.

Theme: The saddest thing about human nature is that we always dream of a magical rose garden on the horizon instead of appreciating the roses blooming at our window today.