After spending more than a decade growing up in the countryside, Su Qing receives a letter from the capital and is transformed into the legitimate daughter of the prime minister's household. It turns out she is the real heiress whose life was switched at birth.
She thought she could go from rags to riches, but once she entered the compound's imposing gates, she learned that nothing would go smoothly.
Her birth mother thinks she has no manners, her brothers treat her coldly, and her sisters all take the side of the elder sister who grew up with them. Whenever the false heiress, Su Mantuo, sheds a tear, all the blame falls on Su Qing.
Su Qing has always been fiercely competitive, constantly trying to outdo Su Mantuo. In the end, she even sets her sights on the girl's fiance.
Su Mantuo's fiance is the heir to Prince Zhennan, famous for his cool, dignified manner.
Unfortunately, Su Qing tries everything she can, but the heir doesn't spare her a glance.
Only after she is poisoned to death by a cup of medicinal wine does she realize that the heir is a deeply calculating man, as venomous as a snake or scorpion. Everything he did was simply to pave the way for the false heiress...
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Given another life, Su Qing only wants to laze around.
"You have no manners at all. What kind of behavior is this?"
Su Qing lowers her head and earnestly apologizes, then climbs a tree to raid a bird's nest the very next moment.
"You spend all day batting your eyes at the top scholar. No wonder everyone says you came from the countryside."
Su Qing chuckles and casually gives the top scholar a crookedly embroidered sachet. The maddening thing is, he treasures it like a priceless gift.
She grows more and more brazen, yet instead of hating her as they did in her previous life, everyone seems eager to care for and flatter her. It makes no sense.
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After being reborn, Su Qing takes on the world, but she doesn't dare go near Zhang Zhezhu, the heir to Prince Zhennan who killed her in her previous life.
Now that she's no longer competing or fighting over anything, surely she and this man can keep out of each other's way.
But just as she's about to marry the top scholar, an imperial edict arrives, sending the groom to the northwest. Then the usually proper heir slips into the bridal chamber alone.
His voice is low, his face like that of a jade-skinned demon.
"A Qing, if you let anyone else into your heart, I won't hesitate to make you drink another cup of poison."
Theme: Happiness matters most
