[Both leads are devoted to each other + comedy + transmigrate into a book + sickly beauty + satisfying romance]
Everyone in the capital said the Ye family’s cousin, Miss Jiang, must be blind to have fallen for that wicked man who had angered his mother and killed his younger brother. She was already frail and sickly, and now she’d lost the Ye family’s protection. Her life was as good as ruined.
But Jiang Lili, the Ye family’s cousin and the subject of all those rumors, scoffed.
What do you know? Don’t worry about me!
As long as I latch on to the male lead, I’ll have food and clothes without a care, and a fortune in gold!
There was another rumor going around the capital: the Ye family’s cousin seemed to be unloved by that wicked man. Despite her chronic illness, she was forced to wait on him, bringing him tea and tending to his every need. She even spent her own money to support him.
In outsiders’ eyes, Jiang Lili had always been a lovesick fool devoted to the wicked general Ye Qingqi, and she’d keep fawning over him until the day she died.
Even Ye Qingqi wondered if his cousin had fallen deeply in love with him. Perhaps, he thought, he should simply marry her.
When Jiang Lili heard the news, she fainted on the spot in fright.
When she woke, she wept like a rain-soaked flower and politely declined. “Lili knows this body won’t last more than a few days. I could never drag Cousin down with me.”
Ye Qingqi replied considerately, “Ever since I was driven out of the family home, you’ve followed me without a proper title. Why not stay by my side for good? When you die of your illness, I can give you a grand funeral so you can leave this world with dignity.”
Jiang Lili: …