I Transmigrated into a Book as the Second Young Lady Who Was Forcibly Taken

Three Blossoms of the Cui Family of Shangjing: The eldest daughter is unmatched in talent and beauty, raised at the Empress Dowager’s side from childhood and married to a promising top scholar. The youngest is brilliant and resourceful, and was the Crown Prince’s first wife.

But Cui Lingguang somehow transmigrates into the Cui family’s second daughter, the one her brother-in-law will forcibly claim for himself.

She can’t outsmart her youngest sister, can’t outrun the Crown Prince, and has such terrible luck that she’ll find a “wild man” every time she steps outside.

In the book, Cui Lingguang’s second daughter has only two possible fates: either the Crown Prince, her brother-in-law, takes her by force and keeps her hidden without giving her a name or status, until she dies miserably at her own sister’s hands, or she runs away with the wild man she finds, only for her family to be destroyed.

Cui Lingguang doesn’t want either fate. She remembers that the second daughter in the book had a childhood sweetheart. On a night in the thirteenth year of Tianning, he earnestly asked her whether she would marry him. Back then, she had timidly shaken her head because her father despised the boy for his low birth.

That’s right: the second daughter in the book spent her whole life seeking other people’s approval, from her father to her sisters. Yet when she was battered and broken, dying in the depths of the courtyard, only that boy shed a few tears for her.

So, in the early summer of the tenth year of Tianning, amid a sudden downpour, she knocked on the door of that dilapidated, long-shuttered house.

What Cui Lingguang didn’t know was that a month earlier, her childhood sweetheart had died at the hands of a desperado swordsman who should never have existed.

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The second young lady is a beautiful, scentless flower, Qin Zhao thinks listlessly after bidding her farewell. Yet, for some reason, he gradually remembers the flower’s color and makes out the patterns on its petals. He even starts to catch a faint fragrance in his dreams.

At first, he only treated her like a lapdog for his amusement. So why, after the dog got into trouble, did he, her “master,” not punish her, but instead get more and more practiced at cleaning up after her? Why hadn’t he killed the frivolous young lady with a poison that would dissolve her insides, even though her gaze kept straying to his chest and waist?

Instead… he found himself savoring something different in that gaze.

He often killed and robbed, but he wasn’t often a good man.

Late at night, Qin Zhao magnanimously dispelled the second young lady’s love poison, smiling slyly. “Do you still want it now?”

Theme: Breaking free from feudal constraints and pursuing a happy life!