While others transmigrate into lives of wealth and status, she has the worst luck—transmigrating as the personal maid to an illegitimate daughter of a Duke’s mansion living in the countryside.
After three years of hardship, the chance to return to the capital finally arrives, but they encounter bandits along the way, and the Second Miss perishes on the spot.
That cold and ruthless elder brother forces her to take the place of the deceased, and in the blink of an eye, she becomes the Second Miss of the Duke’s Mansion.
She thought she had ascended to the heavens in a single bound, unaware that bringing her back was merely a scheme to marry her off to a lecherous playboy, shielding her legitimate elder sister from the engagement.
She confronts him, only to be forcibly restrained: “You’re mad! We’re siblings now, you can’t do this!”
“Siblings? We were never real siblings to begin with.”
Her heart turns cold and she tries to flee, but he warns her with every word: “Leave? Just try stepping one foot out of the Duke’s mansion. I gave you this identity; you are an impostor. If you dare leave, the one I drag back won’t be the Second Miss, but a prisoner!”
He is indifferent by day, yet obsessively possessive by night. She resists desperately: “Don’t touch me! If you touch me again, I’ll scream!”
“Scream? Go ahead and scream until the whole mansion hears. In the dead of night, the Heir of the Duke’s Mansion is in his second sister’s bed…”
Even as he claims her, he does not reject the marriage, yet says his heart belongs to her. With tear-rimmed eyes, she curses him as a hypocrite.
Xiao Jueyan kisses away her tears: “When I return from the capital camp, I will settle the matter with Prince Jing’s estate. I’ll marry you, all right?”
She doesn’t believe a single word of his gentle promises.
What she has wanted, from start to finish, is only her freedom.
Even if she is caught every time she tries to escape, she still refuses to resign herself to fate.
Only Xiao Jueyan knows that from the moment they first met, he had already fallen for her, and his feelings were spiraling out of control…
