Your Illness Lies in Me

[The heroine's second husband is a woman disguised as a man, and the two enter a fake marriage] Yu Qing transmigrates into a book as the male protagonist's beloved first love in a tragic romance. When she has nowhere else to turn, someone gives her three strings of coins to marry a man with paralyzed legs and blindness. The man's name is Lin Yuan. He has exquisite looks and the noble bearing of a royal, even without saying a word. He doesn't seem to exist in the original book. At first, Yu Qing thinks she's simply helping someone out in exchange for money, so she agrees. But as she and the man endure hardship together, she falls for him, and they pledge to spend their lives together. Later, by a twist of fate, the male protagonist captures her. Through all her trials and tribulations, she keeps thinking that Lin Yuan is still waiting for her. But on the day she finally makes it back, Lin Yuan has vanished. Yu Qing searches everywhere to no avail, then learns that he deceived her. The promises witnessed only by the candlelight in their humble room were nothing but lies from a nobleman who had dismissed her sincere feelings. She stops longing for him and settles down to live her own quiet life. - After Xie Linyuan ascends the throne, he despises the days when he was blind and crippled. He orders the court historian to erase every trace of his time in that little mountain village, as if hiding a disgrace. Then he hears that Yu Qing has married. The imperial guards all know that on that day, the emperor suddenly issued an order to leave the palace and head straight for that little mountain village. He reins in his horse before the charred courtyard. His eyes blood-red, his whole body radiating murderous intent, he charges into the ruins, where he finds only a fragment of a red wedding sash. They say the bride and groom both perished in a fire on their wedding night. From then on, Xie Linyuan hates Yu Qing to the bone. He orders monks and Daoist priests to search heaven and earth for her soul, so he can cut her into a thousand pieces and soothe the fury in his heart. But for five whole years, they find nothing. At last, he becomes as lifeless as a withered tree, his heart utterly empty. Later, at the Lantern Festival banquet in the palace, fish lanterns glow and dragon dances swirl. Everyone surrounds the newly crowned top scholar and his wife, praising their talent and beauty and calling them a perfect match. But the emperor, who usually sits alone, suddenly steps out from behind a jade screen. Amid the nobles kneeling all around, he lifts the face of the top scholar's wife, trembling as if she is about to cry. He presses his lips tightly together and stares at her. His emotions are almost out of control, and no one can see the madness in his eyes at having found what he had lost. Yu Qing's eyes tremble with tears. Her red lips move soundlessly, pleading: Don't do this here. Ignoring the top scholar's deathly pale face beside her, the emperor lifts her around the waist, leans close, and murmurs mockingly in her ear, "You and I were once close, my lady. When have you ever needed to bow to me like this?" - Reader's guide: 1. The heroine's second husband is a woman disguised as a man. They enter a fake marriage to escape trouble. [Later, the hero steals her away from her husband.] 2. Transmigrating into a book is just the premise. The original book's complicated plot won't feature much. The dynasty is fictional, with no real-life model. Everything serves the romance between the leads. 3. [Trigger warning] The hero is gloomy and a mad dog! He's an ancient feudal emperor, not a modern person. Please don't judge him by modern moral standards. If you want a morally perfect hero, don't read this book!!! 4. I write without a plan, and this story is overflowing with melodrama. It's all melodrama and triggering plot twists. Click to join the author in savoring the drama. None of the characters' values represent the reader's or author's. Blurb first screenshotted on 2021.07.23 Theme: People can change their fate through hard work.