After Three Years in Exile, My Cold-Faced Cousin Begged Me to Help Him Climb the Social Ladder

Jiang Qingyue has spent fourteen years as a convict, enduring every kind of torment, when she is suddenly told that she is the real daughter of the Jiang family, switched at birth. Everyone says her good fortune has finally arrived: she has a father of high rank and power, a mother from a scholarly family, and handsome, refined brothers. She believes it too. But instead, her family asks her to take the fake daughter’s place and be exiled for another three years. Her father says, “Guiyu is frail. You can endure hardship better than she can.” Her elder brother says, “Qingyue, you have to think of the whole family. If people find out about the switch, it will be a crime of deceiving the emperor!” Her younger brother says, “You’ve already been a convict for over ten years. What’s a few more?” After three years in exile, she returns to find herself an outsider, shunned by the Jiang family. The only person who truly treats her well is her eldest sister, who is dying. Jiang Qingyue thinks this is all her life will ever be, never imagining that anyone might care for and protect her. When they first meet, Xie Lingyun thinks she is a scheming woman trying to marry into a powerful family and looks down on her. But later, he comes to her, begging her to marry up. He always stands up for her, never allowing anyone to say a bad word about her. When others slander her, he proves her innocence. When the Jiang family comes begging to make peace, he personally drives them out. From then on, there is no Jiang family daughter in the capital, only his wife, Lingyun’s beloved.