Ye Jinshu, daughter of the Minister of Personnel, was blessed with exquisite beauty and a graceful, delicate appearance. Raised in the seclusion of the women's quarters, she was often praised: “Miss Ye is a true young lady, talented, beautiful, and virtuous. She'll surely make a wonderful wife!” But it was not until she was sixteen that Ye Jinshu discovered her parents had secretly arranged a marriage for her in childhood, to the son of the Divine Might General.
This so-called “true young lady” was deeply unhappy with the arrangement. After weighing her options, she decided to slip away first and figure things out later.
She thought everything would be fine once she left the capital, but trouble soon found her again.
Ye Jinshu: What in the world is going on?
Ye Jinshu looked up at the young gentleman before her, whose face was as beautiful as jade and whose lips curved in a faint, elusive smile. She gave an awkward grin. “Sir, would you mind stepping aside?”
She thought she would be free of trouble once she left the capital and got away from Meng Yan. But here she had run into another “Cheng Yan.”
This trouble magnet claimed his surname was Cheng and his given name Yan. Chun Tao, her maid who had grown up with her, said, “Miss, I think you treat Cheng Yan differently from the other young gentlemen.”
Ye Jinshu wondered, “Do I?”
Her maid nodded furiously. Absolutely!
Ye Jinshu didn't believe her. Even if she did treat him differently, it was definitely because she had a complex about people with “Yan” in their names! That had to be it!
If someone dropped out of the sky, tangled themselves up in every aspect of her life, and refused to be shaken off, Ye Jinshu could only admit she was unlucky and accept that she was stuck in a doomed relationship!
But when Ye Jinshu looked at the man before her, she couldn't believe her ears. “What did you just say your name was?”
“My name is Meng Yan.”
Ye Jinshu was stunned. “Y-you said your surname was Cheng!”
Meng Yan flicked open his fan and said unconcernedly, “Oh, when you're away from home, you need a few aliases to protect yourself, don't you?”
Ye Jinshu did her best to avoid Meng Yan, but he would lean beside her and say pitifully, “Since we're already betrothed, why not use this chance to grow closer?”
Ye Jinshu: “Thanks, but no thanks.”
Meng Yan of the Meng family was a master of eating, drinking, whoring, and gambling. The young ladies of the capital were infatuated with him in public, but when it came time to consider marriage, none dared choose him.
Meng Yan happened to have business in Yunzhou, where he unexpectedly ran into Miss Ye again. She looked graceful, refined, and well-mannered, but it turned out she was a fake prude. And he himself was a fake scoundrel. He decided to tease her, but before long, he had fallen for her himself.
This is a story of a fake prude and a fake scoundrel falling for each other.
[One-on-one, both leads are each other's only partners, slow burn]
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