Summary
Synopsis:
Jing Ruan grew up in the Lower Fifth District. He was always fantasizing about striking it rich one day. He had had enough of bitter, miserable days. He wanted to live like someone above everyone else. He believed he was no worse than anyone.
Heaven took pity on him. Jing Ruan transmigrated into a book.
He became the young master of a wealthy family.
His wonderful life began on the day he entered that book.
Yan Yihe was heaven’s chosen son, high above all others, proud and aloof as he looked down on the world. Countless people tried to curry favor with him, but he had never imagined that one day, someone as wretched and contemptible as Jing Ruan would also try to cling to him.
The desire and calculation in the other party’s eyes were far too obvious.
It was honestly laughable.
In his eyes, Jing Ruan had no bottom line and no sense of shame. All he wanted was to climb up by latching onto him. He even resorted to crude methods, dressing in women’s clothes to seduce him.
Yan Yihe hypocritically put on the mask of a kind, decent gentleman.
He played along with Jing Ruan in a little love story.
He let Jing Ruan believe that, after countless hardships, he had finally managed to get close to him. He lifted Jing Ruan up to a high position, only to expose everything afterward, tear away his dignity, and lay all of Jing Ruan’s disgrace bare before everyone.
Everyone learned that Jing Ruan was a fake young master, a thief who had stolen someone else’s identity.
Yan Yihe stood with his friends on the platform of the second floor.
Calmly and leisurely, they admired Jing Ruan’s humiliation.
They watched the prey trapped in the hunting ground with nowhere left to escape, watched him finally recognize reality, and, in the end, fall into the hands of Yan Yihe, the hunter.
Jing Ruan fled in a panic. While escaping, he fell into a pool.
Like waking from a fleeting dream, he returned from the book to the real world.
What Jing Ruan found even harder to accept was that he was pregnant.
Yan Yihe thought Jing Ruan had gone into hiding. He did not care. He knew Jing Ruan had nowhere to go and would fall into his grasp sooner or later.
But he waited for one month, two months, three months.
He kept waiting obsessively for five full years, yet he never found a trace of that person again. Yan Yihe fell from his superior position in love, and from then on, their roles were reversed.
He became the pitiful one, searching everywhere for Jing Ruan’s whereabouts and finding nothing.
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One-Sentence Summary: Vain vs. hypocritical.
Theme: Learning from each other and improving together.