In her previous life, Mu Qingqing was the false heiress brought back to the Prime Minister's manor.
After the manor recognized the true daughter of the Lin family, her parents and elder brothers rejected her.
The husband who had once cherished her told everyone she had gone mad, then locked her away at an estate.
Even the son she had risked her life to give birth to called Lin Yu his mother.
In the end, she died coughing up blood.
She was reborn before being brought back to the Lin manor.
She knew Lin Yu was determined to escape her poor foster parents and would stop at nothing to climb higher.
She approached Lin Yu and became the girl's close friend, someone she could tell anything.
That night, she pretended to drink the drugged tea Lin Yu offered her. Just as expected, Lin Yu took her place in the Prime Minister's carriage.
Mu Qingqing knew that six months later, she would be brought to the Prime Minister's manor in Lin Yu's place as the true daughter.
The true daughter had been found, while Lin Yu, the impostor, was abused and locked in a woodshed.
After returning to the Prime Minister's manor, Mu Qingqing went to the woodshed where Lin Yu was held.
Lin Yu's eyes were red as she shrieked hysterically, "I'm the Prime Minister's true daughter! You tricked me, you tricked everyone in the manor!"
Mu Qingqing smiled. "Yes! But unfortunately, no one will ever know the truth."
"From now on, I'll take your place completely and claim everything that should have been yours."
Only later, when Lin Yu remembered her previous life, did she understand how terrifying Mu Qingqing was.
Mu Qingqing had everything under control, except for the unexpected variable that was Pei Du.
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Pei Du was the current emperor's most beloved sixth prince. After falling from his horse and becoming disabled, he fell from the clouds into the dust.
He lived a life worse than death, his whole body steeped in the deathly air of someone who had given up on himself.
Then he traveled through Jiangnan and saw with his own eyes how Mu Qingqing tricked and used Lin Yu with one lie after another, eventually taking her place as the Lin family's true daughter. She even tried to kill him to silence him.
On that rainy night, he knocked on the Lin manor's door in the middle of the night, just to tell the panicked young woman, "Murder isn't the only way to keep someone quiet."
"You can also bind your fates together and become husband and wife."
Reader's guide: 1. The heroine lies constantly. She is not a perfect character.
2. A rebirth revenge story: after being reborn, the false and true heiresses swap fates.
3. Their relationship is a life-and-death tug-of-war. At first, they want each other dead. Later, the male lead would give his life for her.
This blurb was written on February 1, 2024, and has been screenshotted as proof. Plagiarism will be pursued.
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