On the day Wei Xuan was told she was a fake heiress, she accidentally injured her head and woke up with no memories.
All she remembered was that she had a cousin staying temporarily at the Wei residence, and that before long, they would be married.
Her cousin, Xie Ying, was a renowned young general from Longxi, celebrated for his military exploits. He was handsome and skilled in martial arts.
Watching the handsome profile of the young man beneath the corridor, Wei Xuan blushed quietly.
Unfortunately, Xie Ying was perfect in every way except for his terrible temper. He never let her come near and always spoke to her impatiently.
To win him over, Wei Xuan tried a new way to coax him every day. She made him soup, embroidered him a sachet, and contrived every possible chance encounter, all so she could draw his gaze.
When he claimed he was going into seclusion, she climbed through his window.
When he hid at the military camp, she waited for him on the training grounds.
Wei Xuan even pretended to be drunk and fell against him. As Xie Ying caught her, she tilted her head into his arms and said coquettishly, "Brother, I like you so much."
A young girl's innocent seduction was irresistible. Just as he was finally beginning to waver, Wei Xuan suddenly recovered her memories.
Clutching the love letter Xie Ying had written her, she felt a chill rise in her heart.
No wonder he hated her so much. She wasn't his cousin at all. She was the true young master who had been displaced by her for nineteen years!
Just then, her refined and elegant true cousin returned to the capital. Without a second thought, Wei Xuan clung to him, hoping to use him to get away from Xie Ying.
To her surprise, after her cousin escorted her home with such considerate care that day, a cold hand seized her face late that night. Calloused fingertips rubbed against her skin until it hurt, and a sinister voice fell by her ear along with a cold kiss.
"A-Xuan, didn't you say I was the one you were engaged to?"
A case of switched babies had left Xie Ying away from home for nineteen years.
After he had fought his way to fame on the border, one day he was suddenly told he wasn't an orphan at all, but the legitimate son of Wei Cheng, Minister of War.
There was also a fake heiress in the Wei household. Shameless and spoiled, she refused to leave even after her identity was exposed.
At first, Xie Ying felt nothing but disgust for her.
Later, he thought, since Wei Xuan had lived in the Wei household for more than a decade, she might as well stay.
Blurb written on 2024.7.4
Revised on 2025.2.5
Theme: Keep striving to live.
