The Sweet Other Woman Acts Smitten, and the Scheming Heir Falls for It

[Both leads are devoted only to each other + mutual exploitation + the powerful one bows his head + a long road to winning her back + happy ending]

When heavy snow sealed off the mountain, Ye Xunwei went out to gather firewood and found a gravely injured man unconscious.

He was handsome as a piece of fine jade, but unfortunately, he was blind.

That didn't matter. She hadn't taken him in for his looks, but for the jade pendant he carried.

He claimed to be the heir of a marquis's estate and promised to repay her life-saving kindness with a proper marriage proposal and wedding gifts.

But after Ye Xunwei followed him to the capital, he kept her in a separate residence. With a few coaxing words from him, she became a caged bird in that house.

Little did he know that even a caged bird has a beak to peck with.

Xiao Yanshi, heir to the Marquis Who Guards the Nation, was ambushed, gravely wounded, and left on the verge of death. A country girl found him and took him home.

Ye Xunwei cared for him tenderly and attentively. Xiao Yanshi thought she was a clingy vine seeking to attach herself to him, never realizing that saving him had been part of a scheme from the start.

She used his influence to attend banquets in the capital, find the jade pendant's former owner, and investigate a blood feud. She was as docile as a cat in front of him, but the moment she turned away, she bared her fangs, using herself as bait to stir up trouble.

For the first time, Xiao Yanshi's usually steely heart softened for someone. He truly wanted to make her his principal wife.

But the house had long since been abandoned. He searched to the ends of the earth before finally finding her.

Ye Xunwei leaned against the doorway, her expression cool. “My lord, the play is over. There's no need for us to meet again.”