The Aloof Beauty's Wife-Chasing Crematorium

Xiao Jingyan, the eldest legitimate son of the Duke's mansion, had always been cold and abstinent.

Su Tan, his personal maid, had served him carefully for years, yet never once received a tender look from him.

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When a princess arrived, she publicly humiliated Su Tan, calling her a "lowly plaything."

He stood beneath the corridor from beginning to end without saying a word, not even furrowing his brow.

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Late at night, the maids' mocking voices pierced the thin wall: "She's only his personal maid, and she really thinks she's the young madam?"

Su Tan cried silently beneath the covers until dawn. At last, the last of her foolish hopes shattered completely.

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Half a month later, Xiao Jingyan was ordered to leave the capital. But one morning, as Su Tan rose to attend to her duties, she suddenly bent over and retched.

She clutched her lower belly and sank to her knees on the blue-brick floor, her fingertips icy and her whole body trembling.

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This should have been a secret she kept sealed in her heart forever. But it was discovered on the very night he returned home ahead of schedule.

He said only, "The child cannot stay."

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Su Tan knelt at his feet, crying until her voice was hoarse, her forehead pressed against the cold bricks as she begged him for mercy.

All she got in return was the sight of him turning away.

The next day, she heard that his page had gone out to buy medicine.

She didn't dare think about what the medicine was for.

Su Tan wiped her tears, set a fire in the side room, and escaped through the side gate amid the chaos with her bundle in her arms. From then on, she vanished without a trace.

Five years later, at the entrance to Apricot Blossom Alley in Jiangnan, Su Tan made a living selling pastries and embroidering handkerchiefs. A young child with features strikingly similar to someone else's was now by her side.

She thought she would never again have anything to do with that ducal mansion for the rest of her life

until a man in black robes and a jade crown walked through the late-spring willow fluff and stopped in front of her stall.

Something she couldn't understand churned in his deep, pool-like eyes. His first words came out hoarse and low:

"Su Tan, I've been looking for you for five years."

Theme: Pursue a happy life.