A Record of a Mistaken Heart

To uncover the mastermind behind the plot to wipe out her family, Luo Xinci assumes the identity of a concubine-born daughter of the Marquis's household and enters the capital. On her very first day there, she witnesses a scene of "fatherly love and filial devotion" involving a blade going in clean and coming out bloody. Luo Xinci: "..." With nowhere to run, Luo Xinci steels herself and greets her legitimate elder brother. A speck of blood splashes across Ming Yuhe's fair face. He lazily lifts his eyelids and says meaningfully, "Girls change so much by eighteen. Your older brother could hardly recognize you." Luo Xinci: "...Yes... Big, big brother." . The concubine-born younger sister is an impostor. Ming Yuhe doesn't expose her. He watches her coldly as she puts on an act, then steps in to help when she is at a loss, resolving a difficult problem for her. Luo Xinci's eyes light up. "Brother, can you teach me?" "I can, if that's what you want." Ming Yuhe hooks a loose strand of hair beside her temple with his fingertip. His gaze drifts from her cheek to her rosy lips, and he says in a low voice, "But I'm a man of poor morals. I love breaking ethical rules and defying convention... Do you understand?" Luo Xinci: ... Help! Are all you nobles and royals this unhinged?! 1. The cover uses a template. 2. Entirely fictional setting, one-on-one romance, both leads are virgins. 3. The leads have no biological or adoptive family relationship whatsoever. Coming soon: His Majesty Seems to Have Gone Mad. Blurb: As a girl, Jiang Lu witnessed her mother being mistreated by her grandmother and learned how difficult relationships between mothers-in-law and daughters-in-law could be. While still young, she found herself a husband. Yu Buqing was born into a wealthy family, handsome and refined, and orphaned. Jiang Lu showered the gentle young man with sweet words until he swore that he would marry no one but her. Later, Jiang Lu left the capital with her father and gradually lost contact with her young husband. When she finally heard news of Yu Buqing again, she learned that he was the emperor's son and had now ascended the throne. . She had heard that the new emperor was irritable, volatile, and unpredictable, and Jiang Lu felt very uneasy. She couldn't understand how the gentle young man had changed so much, and was also afraid that Yu Buqing might bring up their past and add her to his harem of three thousand beauties. Thankfully, Yu Buqing no longer remembered her. Jiang Lu breathed a sigh of relief, until one day at a palace banquet, she wandered into a side hall and saw a memorial tablet that had been lovingly cared for. It read: "Memorial tablet for my beloved wife, Jiang Jiao Jiao." Jiang Lu suddenly remembered that, as a girl, she had given herself the private nickname Jiao Jiao to make Yu Buqing treat her well. They hadn't lost touch because they lived far apart. She'd found a better prospect, and used her brother's name to send Yu Buqing a letter claiming that she had died. . When Yu Buqing was twelve, his adoptive parents had just passed away. A little girl clung to him, making him play and eat with her, and forcing him to swear that he would cherish her for life and stay by her through life and death. Yu Buqing found her insufferable. Later, when the little girl died of an illness, he was delighted and had fireworks set off throughout the city all night. Then he spent three days and three nights in a melancholy slump. Years later, they met again. Yu Buqing looked at the dignified, gentle Jiang Lu and her fiancé, remembered everything that had happened between them, and waved his hand, ordering her to be brought into the palace. Yu Buqing: "My beloved consort, the empress possessed you again last night and came to see me." Jiang Lu: "..." It's over. His Majesty seems to have gone mad. 1. One-on-one romance, both leads are virgins. 2. Entirely fictional setting. Theme: Love knows no class boundaries.