A wooden beauty who flirts without realizing it vs. a proud young lord who convinces himself she's in love with him.
Shi Yuyao was the adopted daughter of the Minister of Rites. Gentle and accommodating, she was a woman of exceptional beauty and talent. The Shi family had carefully cultivated her like a piece of jade, intending to use her marriage to forge ties with the powerful.
Who could have guessed that the eldest Shi daughter would run away with her lover right before her wedding to the heir of the Prince of Nanyang?
Shi Yuyao took her place as the bride and married into the Prince of Nanyang's household, becoming the heir's consort.
Every day, she walked on eggshells, diligently playing the part of the “heir's consort.”
Three years later.
The eldest Shi daughter, betrayed by her lover, came back.
The truth about the substitute marriage was finally exposed.
Accused of “usurping another's marriage and deceiving the imperial clan,” Shi Yuyao said nothing. She fled alone under cover of night.
Not long afterward, Pei Xu found his runaway wife.
Shi Yuyao woke with a start from a dream and realized she was trapped in someone's arms. A familiar voice sounded in her ear. “You're carrying my child and still trying to run away? What, do you want my son to call some other man his father? Your childhood sweetheart, or that beloved master of yours?”
Theme: The wise do not fall in love.
