Living Off Others by Being Tough

★ Click to watch a shameless heroine flee her wedding, then use moral blackmail to find a husband in the martial world!

Cheng Xunyue, the youngest daughter of a wealthy merchant family in Suzhou, is terminally ill.

To fulfill her dream of wandering the martial world before she dies, she runs away from home.

Her first outing gets off to a bad start: she loses her purse.

Just as she begins to panic, she spots the thief and immediately gives chase.

Then, before she knows it, Zhao Yuan, who was sitting at the next table, catches her.

Zhao Yuan: "Why did you dine and dash?"

Cheng Xunyue: "I'm going to die anyway. Can't you cut me some slack?"

As they say, enemies are bound to cross paths. With no money, Cheng Xunyue stops to rest at a ruined temple and gets caught up in a dispute, unable to extricate herself.

Relying on her impressive moral-blackmail skills, Cheng Xunyue takes the alias Cheng Yun and latches onto a powerful ally: Zhao Yuan, the head of the Fengyun Pavilion.

One day, Cheng Xungu finds his old acquaintance Zhao Yuan and asks him to help search for Cheng Xunyue.

Cheng Xungu: "Xunyue is engaged to your Pavilion Master. She doesn't want to marry him and is always running off. Our parents worried it would hurt her reputation, so they got a few doctors to conspire and tell her she had a terminal illness. They said she could only be cured by marrying into the Fengyun Pavilion and obtaining a secret remedy. They meant to keep her home, but she ran away that very night."

Zhao Yuan spits out his tea. "Does our Pavilion Master know about this?"

Cheng Xungu shakes his head. "I want to ask you to look for her discreetly."

With that, Cheng Xungu takes out a portrait of Cheng Xunyue.

Zhao Yuan's eyelids twitch violently. He nearly spits up blood: the person in the portrait is Cheng Yun, the woman who swindled him out of money and affection!

She was actually engaged to his boss?!

Reader's Guide:

1. The heroine can communicate with spirits and has an overpowered golden finger.

2. The plot takes up more space than the romance.

3. A low-magic setting.

Theme: See more of the world beyond your own perspective.