Alternative Title: 高門長媳
Author: Ms臘腸
Status: Completed
Added: 2025-09-21
Updated: 2025-09-21
["How could the cousin miss have the young master's private item?" A cousin miss living under someone else's roof X the top scholar everyone expects]
Su Ying throws herself alone to her aunt and resides in a side courtyard of the prestigious Du family.
She never thought of climbing the high branch of the Du family, but everyone believes she has her heart set only on tying down the Jieyuan scholar Du Heng to become the eldest grandson's wife.
The matriarch of the house says coldly with a stern face: "Our Du family doesn't engage in marrying any cousins or relatives!" No one believes that she traveled thousands of miles alone to the capital just to avoid her stepmother's reckless arranged marriage.
Whenever she sees him, she takes a detour to avoid him, only hoping that after he tops the imperial exams, her aunt can soon find a suitable match for her so she can marry and leave as quickly as possible.
Who would have thought that in the book pavilion, under everyone's watchful eyes, a bookmark engraved with his name falls out from her book.
"How could the cousin miss have the young master's private item?" At the moment when she is at a loss for words and unable to defend herself, Du Heng steps forward and says indifferently: "I've been looking for this bookmark for a long time; it turns out I left it here. Thank you."
Su Ying is stunned and hasn't opened her mouth yet when she hears this young Jieyuan, who has always been proper and rule-abiding, say: "I've always wanted to ask my cousin sister, why do you see me as a ferocious beast like a jackal, wolf, or tiger, and avoid me at all costs?"