I Thought I Was a Stand-In Until I Found the Suicide Note

During the Zhou Dynasty, the powerful regent Lu Heng brought Jiang Nian, the daughter of the imperial hospital's envoy whose family was in decline, into the palace. Everyone said that she was Lu Heng's beloved "White Moonlight" Xiao Qingyue's stand-in, and Jiang Nian was convinced of this. On the wedding night when the red candles were burned out, he only left the cold words of "do your duty"; the wisteria flowers were quietly transplanted to her courtyard despite the prohibition in Xiyuan's old residence; the silence on her birthday, but she personally guarded the door late at night because of her cough. She looked at the portrait that was 70% similar to hers, swallowed her heart full of sourness, and gave in step by step in her humble secret love. When the eldest princess was humiliated at the banquet, he stood up to protect her but remained distant; when he was seriously injured and comatose, she mistook it for concern for "White Moonlight" and wet her clothes with tears. Until there was a fire in the palace's study, she rushed into the fire to save the portrait, but saw that what he snatched was the medical book she left behind. Behind the charred frame, the twelve-year-old girl's portrait suddenly revealed its dust-laden secret. In the suicide note written in the ruins, written three years later, the words "My wife Jiang Nian personally expresses her sincerity" shattered her cognition. It turned out that he had been deeply in love with Pudie since they first met her in the spring of twelve years old; the so-called substitute was just a trap he had set up to protect her from the court's conspiracy. When the secret struggle for imperial power intertwined with the forces of Jianghu, Jiang Nian put aside his heartbreak and anger, took up his medical skills, and changed from a passive "man in the shadow" to an active player in the game. And Lu Heng's hidden tenderness and sacrifice also turned into the most affectionate confession under the wisteria flowers in the two people's side by side - true love is never accomplished alone, but coexists with you.