When a Mortal Heart Stirs

Jiang Guanyun, young master of the Duke of Xinguo's household, is refined and immaculate, with the bearing of a dragon and the beauty of a phoenix. After an accident leaves him injured, he falls from a life of privilege envied by all into that of a living corpse, limp as mud on a bed.

Everyone thinks he's unconscious, but though he can't move, his mind is clear.

He knows people took advantage of his illness to try to devour the Jiang family, and that even his fiancee abandoned him, bringing in an ill-mannered country girl with no proper upbringing to take her place.

Tang Yi was born into a distinguished family, but after getting lost as a child, she grew up in the countryside. Though she has since returned to her birth family, she doesn't fit in with the noblewomen of the capital.

She's greedy and vulgar, brash and unruly. Yet as the Jiang family is nearly devoured by others, she protects him and preserves his dignity. His muddled, dying heart gradually stirs because of her, like a withered tree in spring.

Naturally, no one could have expected that one day the living corpse whom the physicians had declared would never wake would open his eyes…

Seeing the situation, Jiang Guanyun's mother, who has had enough, decides to reunite her son with his former fiancee. She slaps a stack of banknotes in front of Tang Yi and urges her to leave at once.

Tang Yi happily takes the money and leaves. Jiang Guanyun, who has only just recovered from a serious illness and still can't see clearly, doesn't even have time to make out Tang Yi's face before he receives a divorce agreement. The pain of being abandoned leaves him heartbroken and dejected.

When they meet again, Jiang Guanyun has opened his eyes but can't see clearly, and mistakes someone else for her. The usually courteous and refined man finally loses his composure, gritting his teeth as he asks the innocent woman, hurt: "Have I never mattered to you at all?"

As it happens, Tang Yi has a swollen, nearly shut eye from a stye. Thinking her friend's lover has come to see her, she cheers him on from the sidelines: "Marry him! Marry him!"

At the sound of that familiar voice, Jiang Guanyun freezes.

[The heroine loves money and married for it; marriage first, love later; both leads are virgins; sweet romance]

[The male lead had a fiancee before, but he never liked anyone besides the heroine]

[There is a reborn supporting character, so the story is tagged as rebirth]

[The author is a compulsive blurb editor, but the core premise won't change]

[Fantasy setting, many original details]

Theme: The world is round, and the kindness you send out will come back to you