Lian Pengzhou was a notorious young wastrel in the capital, spending his days fighting crickets and chasing dogs, lazy and wild.
After a falling-out with his parents, he ran away from home to avoid a beating.
With nowhere else to go, Lian Pengzhou had to rely on his friends. He’d stay at one friend’s place for a couple of days, then go mooch drinks off another. Before long, he couldn’t take it anymore. But then he came up with a brilliant idea.
This shameless scoundrel married himself off.
He approached the Cen family, who were at odds with his father, and their daughter, Cen Jiangqing, a renowned literary talent in the capital.
Cen Jiangqing and Ji Mengze had once been the capital’s golden couple, a perfect match of beauty and talent. Sadly, fate had other plans. Ji Mengze died young, and after his death, Cen Jiangqing disappeared from the capital.
Lian Pengzhou had heard that his father admired Cen Jiangqing’s paintings, but because their families were on bad terms, he had never been able to say so.
To return home and escape a beating, Lian Pengzhou set his plan in motion.
He went to a good friend who had joined the Imperial Guards, begging and pleading until he got his hands on Ji Mengze’s records.
As luck would have it, the two men were distant relatives and already looked somewhat alike. With their mannerisms and behavior added in, they were nearly identical.
So, with help from an informant, Lian Pengzhou went to find Cen Jiangqing while wearing a face much like Ji Mengze’s. He bumped right into her, just as planned, and caught her attention. By posing as the stand-in for Cen Jiangqing’s beloved, he successfully married into her family.
At first, Lian Pengzhou looked down on Cen Jiangqing. He thought she was nothing like the lively young women in other households, always cold and dressed in plain clothes. Just looking at her annoyed him.
Later, Lian Pengzhou held Cen Jiangqing every day, begging her to look at him just once. But all he got was a divorce decree.
A frail, gentle older-sister heroine x a green-tea, drama-loving, boyish hero
Theme: Don’t lie.
This is not pleasing to the eye. You can cut it off. It's not pleasing to the eye.
This... Uh, why is it a bit confusing? If the heroine is not in charge of the money in the house, how can she be treated like this?
This is too harsh to say. Isn't the male protagonist not sad at all?
Why are the ones at the back locked? Can't see anymore