Frailing beauty × spoiled playboy, marriage first, love later, one-on-one, both leads' first time
Zhou Houye's youngest grandson, Zhou Huaiji, has come of age but still hasn't married. He spends his days flirting around and gets scolded every day when he comes home. In a fit of anger, he sends out marriage proposals far and wide.
When the Prince of Nanan hears about it, he immediately comes to arrange a match. Everyone in the city knows that the prince has a daughter who can't find a husband, coughing at every step and as frail as a willow in the wind.
Zhou Huaiji has finally brought trouble down on his own head, and there's nothing for it but to grit his teeth and marry her.
On their wedding day, Zhou Huaiji waves his fan and looks down at Xue Ying. "Once you're married into this family, you'll follow the rules."
Xue Ying immediately launches into a thunderous coughing fit, alarming every servant in the household. Zhou Huaiji is publicly reprimanded by his father and made to kneel in the ancestral hall for two days.
From then on, Zhou Huaiji is driven to despair: She's an ancestor.
Can't deal with her? Then stay away! Zhou Huaiji deliberately stays out all night and neglects his new wife.
One day, when he returns, Zhou Huaiji sees a frail silhouette beneath the window eaves.
The young woman slowly turns around, her clear, luminous eyes fixed on him. She gives a soft sigh.
Zhou Huaiji's heart contracts.
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Because of her frail health, Xue Ying has been strictly controlled since childhood. She can't go out or meet people.
Hearing that Zhou Huaiji has a terrible reputation, she sets up a scheme to fake her own death.
Everything goes as planned. After marrying, she doesn't have to serve her husband, and the Zhou family treats her with both respect and fear. Xue Ying knows they are secretly making funeral preparations.
Xue Ying is waiting, too.
Waiting until she can fake her death and be free to roam the vast world.
But lately, her sham husband has suddenly started showing off in front of her like crazy.
Xue Ying: Is he sick or something?
Zhou Huaiji: ?
Theme: Sincerity for sincerity