In her previous life, Gu Fei paid a terrible price after taking her elder sister Gu Yin's place and marrying Prince Rong. Gu Yin was Prince Rong's one true love, while Gu Fei was just a deluded, presumptuous mosquito's-blood interloper who had no idea when to quit. Naturally, she suffered every sort of oppression and humiliation at the hands of the man.
Reborn, Gu Fei knew her place. She understood that Gu Yin was Prince Rong's one true love. This time, she would stay far away from him from the start. All she had to do was find a way to win Prince Rong's favor for her father and brothers. Once he ascended the throne, she would rise with him and enjoy the benefits of having a powerful patron.
But Heaven seemed determined to play a joke on her. After being reborn, she was as low-key as could be, yet she kept running into Prince Rong far more often than in her previous life. Even a visit to her maternal uncle's country estate turned into an unexpected encounter. Gu Fei couldn't make sense of it. Faced with Prince Rong, who kept turning up wherever she went, she finally mustered the courage to ask timidly, "I'm only a daughter of the third branch of the Gu family. The person you're looking for should be my eldest sister, Gu Yin, the legitimate daughter of the first branch. Your Highness must have mistaken me for someone else, right?"
Prince Rong stared at her without blinking, his voice hoarse. "No. You're the one I'm looking for!"