Save the Lovesick Male Lead

[Gentle, gracious girl from a poor family vs. scheming, lovesick young master]

Gu Mengchuan, the eldest son of the second branch of the Gu family, has been frail and sickly since childhood. Rumor has it he’s a consumptive invalid.

The Gu family sought out the most renowned fortune-teller in Huaiyang, who cast a divination and determined that the birth chart of Wen Lingge, a poor scholar’s daughter, was compatible with his.

Not long afterward, Wen Lingge married into the Gu family, a wealthy imperial merchant house that managed Huaiyang’s silk trade.

But Wen Lingge soon discovered that the Gu household was divided, with everyone scheming against everyone else. Her husband Gu Mengchuan’s birth mother, Cao, was delirious and unstable, while the various madams, young ladies, and young masters all had secrets of their own...

On their wedding night, Gu Mengchuan died, plunging Wen Lingge into a treacherous whirlpool.

As she investigates the truth behind his death, a tangled mystery involving the great families and even the imperial house gradually unfolds before her...