My Lady, Hidden in His Embrace

Jiang Ying was born a young lady of wealth, but overnight her family was ruined, and she was reduced to a servant in her enemy’s household. To avenge her family, she lay low and kept her true intentions hidden until the county princess was to be married. The task of being the trial bride’s maid should never have fallen to her. The county princess feared Jiang Ying’s extraordinary beauty, but Jiang Ying had won the madam’s favor, so the madam had her devote herself to paving the way for her mistress. Jiang Ying understood clearly: no matter how gentle the heir was, his kindness was never meant for her. She endured it, letting her mistress trample her dignity into the dirt, and watched as the heir used her life to save the woman he cherished. But as she looked at the heir’s resolute gaze, Jiang Ying smiled. “You’ll never know that the woman you were engaged to, the one you cherished above all others, was me.”