A Beauty Hidden Behind the Mansion Gates

While other people who transmigrated ended up rich or noble, she had the worst luck of all: she became the personal maid of a country girl who was a concubine's daughter in the Duke of Jun's household. After enduring three years, she finally got the chance to return to the capital, only to be attacked by bandits along the way. The second young miss, born of a concubine, died on the spot. Her cold and ruthless elder brother forced her to take the dead girl's place, and she was transformed into the Duke of Jun's second young miss.

She thought she had made it to the top, but little did she know that he had brought her back to the capital only to marry her off to a lecherous wastrel and make her take her elder sister's place in an arranged marriage.

She confronted him, but he forcibly restrained her. "You're insane! We're brother and sister now. You can't do this!"

"Brother and sister? We were never really brother and sister."

She was heartbroken and tried to escape. He warned her, every word a threat: "Leave? Just try taking one step outside the Duke of Jun's estate.

I gave you this identity. You're an impostor to begin with.

If you dare leave, I'll have you dragged back. You won't be the second young miss anymore, but a prisoner!"

By day, he was aloof; by night, he was possessive to the point of obsession. She fought back with all her might.

"Don't touch me! Touch me again and I'll call for help!"

"Call? Go ahead. Let the whole household hear. In the middle of the night, the heir of the Duke of Jun is in the bedchamber of his second younger sister..."

He kept her for himself but did not break off the marriage arrangement, all the while claiming he loved her. Eyes red, she called him a hypocrite.

Xiao Jueyan kissed away her tears. "When I return from the capital garrison, I'll take care of the matter with Prince Jing's household. I'll marry you, all right?"

She didn't believe a word of his tender promise. All she'd ever wanted was freedom.

Even when she was caught every time she tried to escape, she still refused to accept her fate.

Only Xiao Jueyan knew that from the moment they first met, he had already fallen for her, and his feelings were spiraling out of control...