Leaving the Magpie's Nest

Also known as After Climbing into the Wrong Bed

Forceful pursuit and possession + faux-brother-and-sister romance. A sister who acts lively but is truly proper VS a brother who acts proper but really climbs through windows

Yan Ning is the “fake heiress” who took the place of the real one. She keeps herself on a tight leash, behaving properly and following the rules so no one can find fault with her. Unfortunately, Yuan Shijiu, the nobleman she was betrothed to in childhood, treats her with cold indifference and has broken off their engagement several times, leaving her unmarried well past the usual age.

Just as Yuan Shijiu is traveling in Yangzhou, her family sets things up, and she turns a blind eye as she climbs into his bed...

She never imagined she would see him at home... He is Gu Yanci, her nominal elder brother, who supposedly left home when he was young and was adopted into their maternal grandfather's family. A censor by profession, he has come to Yangzhou under the identity of her fiance, Yuan Shijiu. The real Yuan Shijiu has never even been to Yangzhou.

Rumor has it that her nominal elder brother is a stickler for etiquette, a model scholar in Chang'an, a refined and otherworldly young man with the poise of an old soul...

Before, Yan Ning had only feared one thing: that the truth would come out and she would lose all her wealth and status. Now she has two more worries: that Gu Yanci, whose outward appearance is so different from his true nature, will use her and then kill her to cover his tracks, and that the Yan family will discover she seduced the wrong man and drown her in a pond.

Yan Ning is so uneasy whenever she sees Gu Yanci that she soon falls ill.

When Gu Yanci comes to visit, she hides under the covers, afraid to make a sound. Fortunately, he pretends not to know her in front of others. As long as he stops climbing through her window at night, she'll be fine...

Gu Yanci is a hypocrite who never fails to get what he wants, even when the person he wants is his sister in name only. Yan Ning has no idea that Gu Yanci has known since childhood that she is not his real sister...

Gu Yanci: Mistake the person, climb into the wrong bed, and still end up with something this good?

Yan Ning: A fake can never become real.

Gu Yanci: My sister may be fake, but my wife is real.

Reader's guide:

1. A melodramatic story about forceful pursuit and possession. The heroine was transmigrated into a fetus and is basically like the people of this world.

2. There is no real heiress. She took the identity of the real young master, who has the story arc of a proud, tragic, beautiful, powerful second male lead.

3. The romance and plot are split evenly. The main plot follows an investigation and the uncovering of secrets.

4. Not a conventional everyone-loves-her story.

Theme: A fake can never become real.