The Stablehand's Wildest Dream Came True

Everyone says Chu Ningxi is lucky. Despite her lowly birth, she has lived one enviable life after another among the elite.

The matriarch of the wealthy Chu family in Jiangnan and the matriarch of the Shen clan, the foremost noble house in Jiangzuo, both belong to the Yao clan and are always comparing themselves. Chu Ningxi's mother comes up short. So when both women are about to give birth, Chu's mother hatches a plan: she swaps the identities of the two newborn girls. Chu Ningxi rises from being the daughter of a lowly merchant to becoming the legitimate daughter of a distinguished family.

Pampered and indulged, she grows up spoiled and willful. Every young lady in Jiankang despises her, and she is also betrothed to the Yuan clan of Chen Commandery, a family with a century-old pedigree. They envy her to the point of madness.

When she is fifteen, her identity is exposed and she is claimed by the Chu family. The young ladies who once despised her all applaud. But before their applause can grow loud, the head of the Wang family, an aristocratic clan that has moved south, arrives at the Chu residence to ask for their daughter's hand.

In an instant, Chu Ningxi becomes the most envied young Madam Wang in Jiankang.

In the eyes of the world, Chu Ningxi's changing identity seems tailor-made for Young Master Wang, whose own background is just as complicated. Had she not been of low birth but possessed the bearing of a noble young lady, she could never have married into the Wang family. They are a match made in heaven.

But Chu Ningxi doesn't see it that way. If Wang Jingzong hadn't exposed her background, she would still be the legitimate daughter of the Shen family, and she could have married the Yuan family's eldest son, the man she'd long hoped to wed. Her life would have been wonderful.

Luckily, she was reborn!

Fate has given her another chance. She will seize it and never let Wang Jingzong have his way!

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Wang Jingzong thinks the young lady who stole another's identity in the Shen family has put a curse on him. After eight years of marriage, he gets another chance to start over, yet still loves her to the point of obsession.

And hates her just as deeply.

Throughout their years together, she has always seen him as a despicable man: a villain who sold out her background to get what he wanted, a lowborn coachman.

This time, he decides to let her run headlong into a wall.

An excessively delicate noblewoman versus a calm, self-controlled coachman

Notes: 1. This is a slow-burn story. Both leads will have their secret identities exposed. Once they are, the sweet romance begins. Come join us!

2. The female lead's feelings for the Yuan family's eldest son are highly calculated at first, to the point that she loses herself. In the middle of the story, she willingly lets him go.

I've started a new short story, Metamorphosis: Four Years After the Wedding. Please add it to your collection!

After a family upheaval, Cheng Wanyi leaves the capital with a group of loyal servants and settles in a remote village in Huizhou. She takes a live-in son-in-law, has a child, and enjoys a peaceful life that others envy.

The only imperfection is that her husband has kept a secret from her for four years. After getting nowhere by pressing him for answers, she has to talk herself into accepting it:

It's fine, it's fine. Life is never perfect, so let's just make the best of it.

Then one day, three bandits show up at her door, brandishing a hundred-thousand-tael IOU her husband signed and demanding repayment.

Only then does she realize that some things can't be ignored... When it matters, you have to take a stand.

The emperor's favored daughter falls from the altar after one misstep.

An ordinary scholar climbs the ladder to the clouds.

Summary: Infuriating

Theme: Survival of the fittest