Con artist of the martial world x young master of a prestigious family. The male and female leads have a gender-bender dynamic!!! No other content warnings!!!
Wan Ran is the slickest con artist in Luocheng's ghost market. She's never failed at stealing, swindling, or cheating, until she targets Wen Jinyan.
The eldest young master of the Wen family of Luocheng, he has the most exalted status. He looks like an immortal, and is a severe germaphobe. He thinks she's filthy and lowborn, and even looking at her feels like touching something dirty.
She planned to grab her payout and run, but accidentally discovered the broken, shattered person beneath his finery. She also learned that a few stray dogs were enough to scare this gloomy, ill-tempered young master unconscious.
Later, when a plague swept through Luocheng, he tossed her a cart of medicine and rasped, "Don't die outside my family's door."
Later still, people came from the capital to take back the family outcast who had been confined at the ancestral home for ten years.
Clutching the gold hairpin patterned with a crabapple blossom bud, Wan Ran gritted her teeth and slipped into the Wen family's party heading to the capital.
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Wen Jinyan hated two things in his life: dogs, and the little con artist who vanished after taking his hairpin.
Ten years passed. He thought he had long since rotted away in the old house.
Until the shameless, crude-mannered con artist appeared, disturbing his stagnant world.
She saved him, angered him, saw all his shameful secrets, and still dared to smile and ask, "Wen Jinyan, dare you come with me?"
[Female lead who seems slick and greedy but is genuinely a scoundrel x male lead who seems debauched and gloomy but is actually a pure-hearted young master]
Theme: Better to prey on those above us than on those at the bottom
