A Concubine Sent to the Grave? Don’t Panic! The Heir Blushes and Begs for a Title

[Tension and teasing / sweet first, angst later / happy ending]

Shen Qing, a statistics PhD, transmigrates into the role of a concubine meant to be buried alive with her master?!

“What? I have to pray for a worthless young marquis for a year, and if I fail, I’ll be buried with him?!”

To save her life, she joins the School of Divination and meets a cool, aloof senior apprentice. On a whim, she makes him her “escape tool.”

Who knew this tool would accompany her as she sets up a fortune-telling stall, take a blade for her, and close off an entire street for her, indulging her until he can’t say no?

She goes from scheming and using him to falling for him sincerely, until the truth comes out

The young marquis she’s been desperate to escape is him!

What she thought was a mutual love story was him waiting at the finish line all along, watching her struggle.

What she thought was standing by each other through hardship was him coolly using her in a political gamble when his duty to the prince’s household came into conflict with her life!

Disheartened, she passes the examination to become an official in the Bureau of Celestial Phenomena and builds a career for herself.

He rides through snow for a thousand miles in full armor, then kneels before her, eyes red. “Please, don’t go...”