His Fake Wife
Su He was born into the servants' quarters; both her parents were bondservants. If all went as expected, she too would become a bondservant when she grew up, married off to a young attendant or guard designated by her master.
However, by a twist of fate, she was forced to impersonate the deceased legitimate daughter of the Li family and marry Xie Wuchen, a young master from an aristocratic family.
She tried her best to play the role of the Xie family's young madam, serving her husband and honoring her mother-in-law. But things didn't go as planned; several months later, the real legitimate daughter of the Li family miraculously returned from the dead...
Xie Wuchen was a man of dignified bearing, accomplished in both literature and martial arts, the unapproachable "lofty mountain flower" for the noble ladies of the city. He married the Li family's legitimate daughter only to repay her "favor of a single meal."
He believed the wife he married was gentle and sincere, the best woman in the world, until several months later, when a woman who looked exactly like his wife appeared before him, and he suddenly realized the deception.
Enraged, he clutched the woman's neck and demanded, "Where has my wife gone?"
1v1 Frazzled woman x Scheming man.
Lord Shaoqing gains a weakness.
The message: Humans must live with dignity.