On Xue Wanyao’s wedding day, her bridal palanquin was unfortunately struck by lightning, and in the ensuing chaos, it plunged into the water. The passing Young Prince of Chu, seeing the bride falling into the water with no one to rescue her, jumped in and saved her.
When Xue Wanyao arrived at the gates of the Wuding Marquis Manor in her soaking wet wedding dress, she was met with the command for the palanquin to turn back. Her prospective mother-in-law, the Madam of Wuding Marquis, had always been obsessed with reputation. She despised Xue Wanyao for being saved from the water by an outside man, claiming she had lost her virtue, and publicly broke the engagement.
Left with no choice, Xue Wanyao returned to the Xue family, only to be driven out by them for the same reason—damaging their family name. Two paths lay before Xue Wanyao: end her life to preserve what remained of her dignity, or enter a nunnery to live out her days as a nun.
Instead, Xue Wanyao found herself a third path: to offer herself in marriage to repay the Young Prince of Chu for saving her life.
The Young Prince of Chu asked, “If you want to repay a life-saving debt, shouldn’t you give this Prince silver? Is offering yourself a way to repay a kindness or to seek revenge?”
However, the Prince’s mother, Princess Changping, was delighted by the news. The Prince was already seventeen but had never shown interest in women, leaving the future of the Gu family lineage in doubt. Thus, she took it upon herself to bring Xue Wanyao into the Prince’s manor as a concubine.
On the night Xue Wanyao entered the Prince of Chu’s manor, the Young Prince declared sternly, “You have repaid kindness with enmity. Even if you are my concubine, I will never touch you.”
One night later, when the Young Prince woke up, he stared in stunned silence at his own white, slender arms adorned with gold bracelets—the arms of a woman.
He really hadn’t wanted to touch Xue Wanyao at all, but now, he had no choice but to “touch” her…
Could anyone tell him why he had woken up to find himself in the body of Xue Wanyao?!
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