The Ditsy Beauty Fears Nothing

[Thanks to Kaqiao Le Ta Ta for the cover]

Face-blind silly beauty x scheming old dog

1v1 / happy ending / sweet romance

Shen Lingyue is breathtakingly beautiful, enough to captivate everyone.

Unfortunately, she's spoiled and melodramatic, has no talent for music, chess, calligraphy, or painting, and even has poor eyesight.

She's the genuine article: a pretty airhead.

One day, the Shen family falls into ruin, left with nothing but four bare walls.

They spruce Shen Lingyue up and bundle her off in the middle of the night to the powerful Regent.

But he sends her right back.

Everyone thinks Shen Lingyue must be too ashamed to go on living.

A few close friends even kindly send her a length of white silk, urging her to die sooner rather than later so she can be reborn sooner.

Only Shen Lingyue is delighted, returning home with the compensation money from the Regent's manor.

Not only does she buy back her hairpins, jewelry, and gems, and acquire houses and shops, she also gets herself a poor but devoted sweetheart who's willing to marry into her family.

It's just that her sweetheart is sometimes aloof and haughty, sometimes gentle and attentive. He's very strange.

But it doesn't matter.

One of them has poor eyesight, the other has a poor brain. They're a perfect match.

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On the Lantern Festival, the noble young ladies are dressed to the nines.

Shen Lingyue, who is rumored to have attempted suicide eight hundred times, is decked out in jewels and fine silks, her complexion rosy as she leans against the railing to listen to music.

As the wine flows and the mood takes her, she crooks a finger.

Her wine spills all over the Regent, who is admiring the moon by the river, and she imperiously orders him, "Chen Lang, pick up my handkerchief."

Xie Zheng, the Regent, says nothing. He hooks a slender finger around the handkerchief, fragrant with cosmetics, and smiles without a word.

After a long while, he glances over at her from afar, his words pointed.

"My lady's sweetheart seems to be that man over there."

Shen Lingyue, who's been batting her eyelashes at Xie Zheng all night: "...?"

Her sweetheart, who has just discovered that she's been cheating on the Regent: "...!"

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