In her previous life, Cui Yingyue worked herself to the bone.
She tried to please everyone, yet was despised by her own family and earned a reputation for being arrogant and domineering.
She stood by her husband through thick and thin, only to be strangled to death.
After she died, she saw that the person who sat motionless for three days and nights, holding her corpse and avenging her, was her most hated brother, Cui Zhuo.
When she opened her eyes again, she was back in the year she had just been brought home. Back then, she had believed the slander and hated Cui Zhuo. She had bullied him mercilessly when he was at his lowest.
This time, Cui Yingyue decided she would stop trying to please anyone. She only wanted to repay her brother and make this hardest stretch of his life a little easier.
When everyone else avoided Cui Zhuo, she volunteered to look after him. They all mocked her as an ignorant country girl, saying that keeping company with a criminal personally condemned by the emperor would do her no good.
Later, Cui Zhuo returned to power and rose rapidly through the ranks. Everyone in the household rushed to curry favor with him, while noble young ladies clamored to marry him. He sat in the courtyard, surrounded by admirers, yet his eyes could see only one person.
He beckoned Cui Yingyue over from the corner, smiling gently. "A Ying, come here."
In his previous life, Cui Zhuo rose to the position of Grand Secretary.
On his first day in office, an official dragged before him his younger sister, Cui Yingyue, who had once bullied him. But the official had no idea that one badly judged attempt at flattery would end his political career.
Looking at Cui Yingyue, asleep and unconscious, he dared for the first time to gently touch her face.
He remembered how, many years ago, the girl had thrown away the poison he planned to use to take his own life and pointed at him, scolding:
"Cui Zhuo, what gives you the right? You stole more than ten years of my life, so what gives you the right to die? I want you to live and watch me rise to greatness, to see me live better than all of you."
Later, he held her cold, stiff body in his arms, carefully trying to warm her.
"Cui Yingyue, wake up. Let me watch you live better than I ever did."
#Faux siblings, the male and female leads are not related by blood#
Theme: Be a kind person