Lu Jiahe was the least favored illegitimate daughter of the marquis's household. From childhood, she had been cautious, patient, and dutiful.
Yet she was blessed with exquisite beauty, and her father insisted on marrying her off to a notorious official who had already lost two wives.
Jiahe was heartbroken. With tears blurring her vision, she fell into a lake, thinking she might as well end it all.
Unexpectedly, Pei Yuxing, the duke's heir, a man as refined as jade and as dignified as a gentleman, leaped into the lake and pulled her ashore.
Jiahe clutched his lapel as if it were a lifeline, looking utterly pitiful. "Would you be willing to marry me, sir?"
Pei Yuxing coolly pried her delicate hand away, his eyes turning cold in an instant. "A lowly illegitimate daughter like you dares to dream of such a thing?"
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Pei Yuxing had kindly rescued a friend's younger sister, only for the woman to cling to him. He was furious.
Unexpectedly, after the two of them awoke from an assassination attempt, they had somehow switched souls and were forced to stay bound together.
He was roughly dragged by her family into the reception hall to meet the man on the other end of the marriage arrangement they had both been saddled with, one that he had never given a thought to, even knowing about it.
Just one look at the old man before him made his eyes hurt, yet his family told him, "Have a nice chat. Talk more. You might even fall for him." Pei Yuxing: ...
He did fall for him.
He fell for the urge to kill him.
In that instant, he suddenly remembered the despair in her tear-filled eyes the day they first met.
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Because of the threat she had made against him in the past, Jiahe knew the man was deeply prejudiced against her.
After they switched bodies, Jiahe was careful in everything she did and never caused him trouble. Taking on the identity of a vice minister, she handled criminal cases, investigated and solved them, and learned many skills. Along the way, she even earned a promotion.
At last, the time came for their souls to return to their own bodies. Jiahe was deeply grateful to Pei Yuxing for giving her the chance to live a life unlike that of other women, and to become someone who could face anything on her own.
But on the night she told him she was leaving, the man came stumbling to find her, reeking of alcohol. "If you're leaving, take me with you too, all right?"
The cover background image is from the lovely Qi Jiuzi~
Theme: Be more tolerant and understanding toward others.
