"Thank heavens, I’m still alive!"

Xu Jingge clambers up from the water with a disheveled look, before she could cheer for her near escape from death, she discovers that something was wrong!

She tugs desolately at her drenched silk gown and discovers her once-full figure had substantially shrunk. In a hurry, she lifts her hem only to see her right leg looking clean and fair—the original redwind bellflower birthmark on her was nowhere to be seen!

What happened?

An idea flashes across her mind,

Almost out of desperation, she pulls her neckline down, and sure enough, even the English name etched onto her collarbone was gone!

Could it be, she didn't die but traveled to another realm?!

"You’re a woman of loose morals."

A mocking voice of an unfamiliar man resonates in her ears. Xu Jingge frowns and looks around, attempting to locate the source of the sound.

But after looking left and right, besides a few fallen tree leaves, there was nothing else.

She looked up—

Craggy rocks extended towards the sky, outlining a corner of the cliff.

She feels a bout of dizziness as the original host’s memories flooded into her mind like a relentless torrent…

She saw two men in black forcefully approaching her, she had no choice but to retreat step by step… until she fell off the cliff!

She clearly remembered begging the men in black to spare her while crying. One of the men in black said, "Only now you are scared? Useless! You should blame your ugly face which even risks its own life to block someone’s path!"

Ugly?

Indeed, she, the unloved legitimate daughter of the Duke Xiang, was quite unattractive. Her face was covered with large birthmarks, repellent enough to be shunned by everyone in the capital.

Blocking others' paths?

Her betrothal to the crown prince was an agreement between her birth mother and the empress dowager before her death.

Who would have known that her younger sister would secretly conspire with the crown prince? She unintentionally obstructed her sister's path to becoming a phoenix perched high in the sky. Astonishingly, the crown prince sent out assassins, intending to eradicate her!

She quietly accepted the reality that she had crossed over, mourning for the original host of this body.

Despite being the legitimate daughter of the Prime Minister, she was not as favored as her step-sister by their father.

In order to maintain a good reputation, her stepmother had allowed her to be uninhibited in her conduct—even though she was ugly, she was arrogant and domineering, shamelessly pursuing the crown prince, turning herself into a laughingstock, regarded as a repulsive infatuated woman.

In reality, she was quite pitiable. Her biological mother who genuinely cared for her had passed away.

Tricked and manipulated by her stepmother and stepsister, she had ended up being pushed down a cliff.

Tragic, truly tragic.

"What are you daydreaming about?" a strange male voice sounded again.

Clear and potent, interspersed with a lazy wind-like whisper, it came in from the vast wilderness.

Xu Jingge slightly closed her eyes, picked up a stone from the lakeshore in front of her, and hastily threw it towards the figure hiding behind the tree on the right.

Crash! A figure sprang out from behind the tree.

"Well, you're alert enough to pinpoint my location!"

A figure in a red robe gracefully landed, a fallen leaf stuck on his coronet. His skin was as white as the moon, with slightly upturned peach blossom eyes, filled with clear moisture, and a small smirk on his lips. Even Xu Jingge, who had seen many handsome men, felt a little dazed.

But she was not bewitched by the man's beauty. She couldn't be, she was not the original owner of this body, how could she possibly be dazzled by mere beauty?

Before crossing over to this somehow unfamiliar body, she was the top thief of the 21st century!

She was also the founder of a renowned Fortune 500 company!

Wasn't it because a certain high-ranking official accepted the bribe of a crystal Buddha statuette from an arms trafficker that she thought of taking on the Buddha statute for charity?

And how did she end up betrayed by a subordinate, falling from a high rooftop?

The mischievously arrogant man looked at the stunned woman who was soaked from head to toe, and furrowed his brows in confusion.

"Are you always this out of it?"