Inside a spacious and luxurious master bedroom, the apricot curtains billowed upwards as the autumn wind blew in through an opened French window. The moonlight spilled through the window and onto the marble floor. It looked as if the floor was covered in silver frost.

The villa and the surrounding area were extremely quiet. Even if you listened carefully, you would only hear the whistling wind outside the windows.

In the middle of the room, there was a big bed. The expensive, top quality silk sheets were disheveled. They barely hid the man’s lower half. The man’s strong back muscles and bronze skin was exposed underneath the moonlight.

A groan inadvertently came out of his lips. It was like sinking into sweet honey. Another moan escaped. Emotions had reached the deepest place. Gratification came quick. Ye Zhen subconsciously clutched the man’s wide and strong back. The uninhibited pleasurable activity came to a climax.

The man lied down next to Ye Zhen. His strong arms forcefully pulled her into his embrace.

Ye Zhen seemed like a satiated fox. She languidly shifted to nestle comfortably in the man’s arms. Feeling quite pleasant, her closed eyes started to drift open. When she sleepily opened her eyes all the way, a pair of brooding, deep eyes captured her full attention.

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Ye Zhen abruptly jolted awake from her dream. She blankly looked around. The French window was closed. The sunlight shined through the window and passed through the apricot curtains to brightly illuminate the room.

She placed her hand over her wildly beating heart. As she slowly sat up, the straps to her white silk nightgown slid down her shoulders.

Her cheeks slightly heated up as she looked at the man lying by her side. He still hadn’t woken up from his coma. But, she felt as if she was still asleep and had remained in that uninhibited and carefree dreamland.

In the dream, he had looked at her with such a deep, penetrating gaze. It was as if she was looking into bottomless pools of spring water. Ye Zhen’s attractive eyebrows slightly scrunched up. Pushing the quilt to the side, she took a look. There was nothing wrong with her white night gown. Other than feeling uncomfortable because her body was sweaty, everything else was fine.

Ye Zhen couldn’t be blamed for overreacting. That dream had felt too real. Moreover, this wasn’t the first time she had this dream.

Although she was young and had a youth’s desires and hopes, wasn’t it too ridiculous to have those types of thoughts for a man that had been unconscious for a year?

Since she had transmigrated to this world and became the wife of the man lying on the pillow next to hers, she would have this type of dream every now and then.

That’s right, she had transmigrated.

After Ye Zhen went to sleep one night, she woke up and found herself lying next to the comatose Lu Beichuan. She had become his wife.

After one month of observations, Ye Zhen had to admit that she had transmigrated to the novel, Newly Wed, Misplaced Kindness.

In this novel, Ye Qing and Ye Zhen were identical twins. Although they had the same appearance, their personalities were different. The older sister was a warm and generous person. From childhood to adulthood, she has always been her parents’ pride and joy. Other parents wished their children could be like her.

With such an outstanding older sister as her foil, the younger sister’s mediocrity was magnified to a countless degree. Ye Zhen started to blame the gods and other people. She felt aggrieved over the unfair treatment and her bitter experiences. Resentment took root in her heart. When her parents used her to replace her sister in the marriage to Lu Beichuan, she took her first step down the path of ruin.

In the novel, Lu Beichuan was a villain. After he was injured by a meticulously planned car accident, he fell into a coma for a year. During this one year, Lu Beichuan’s grandfather, Old Master Lu, obtained a wise person’s guidance. The wise person said that as long as he married his grandson to Ye family’s oldest daughter, it would bring his grandson good luck, and his grandson would definitely recover from this accident.

Ye Zhen’s father was a useless second generation son. Once the Ye family’s wealth was passed down to him, it was on its way to being utterly wasted down to nothing. He was selfish and loved to gamble.

After Old Master Lu promised that he would help the Ye family’s debt-ridden company if Ye Qing married his grandson, the Ye family prepared to marry off Ye Zhen’s older sister, Ye Qing, without reservations.

However, Ye Qing had already fallen deeply in love with the male lead. Once she heard about her parents’ arrangement for her, she resolutely ran off with the male lead. She abandoned her life as a daughter from a wealthy family to live an arduous life with a poor young man that had an unblemished integrity.

Although the older sister was gone, the younger sister was still here. Anyways, these sisters looked identical, even their parents couldn’t tell them apart, much less members of Lu family. And so, the Ye family married Ye Zhen over without any qualms.

The transmigrated Ye Zhen didn’t have a problem being married to a comatose person. But, one year after Lu Beichuan fell unconscious, which was to say that in one month from now, he would wake up.

Perhaps, it was because he had experienced one year of being a comatose person. In the novel, after Lu Beichuan woke up, his personality drastically changed. He dealt with people using unconscionable methods. He treated his wife with contempt. Under the workings of fate, he eventually met Ye Zhen’s warm and generous older sister and found out the Ye sisters had switched places.

When he compared the inarticulate and mediocre younger sister to her skillful and efficient older sister, Lu Beichuan felt cheated. And when Lu Beichuan found out that the male lead was his half brother – they had the same father, but different mothers – he went down the villain’s path of trying to seize power and his enemy’s wife.

Of course, as her older sister’s substitute, Ye Zhen naturally didn’t have any good days left once Lu Beichuan found out about the truth. The villain used her a substitute for her older sister to vent his frustrations and resentment.

Because of the resentment that had accumulated over the years, Ye Zhen repeatedly flaunted her status as Lu Beichuan’s wife in front of her older sister. Later on, she gave birth to Lu Beichuan’s son. Of course, because the son grew up in such an environment, his morals weren’t very good. Father and son colluded together to do plenty of deceitful, sinister, and crafty schemes. Their high intellect was solely used to commit crimes. For a long time, they amused themselves by tormenting the male lead.

However, a villain’s fate couldn’t be avoided, and the family eventually suffered the consequences of their actions. After the villain suffered crushing defeat in the hands of the male lead, Ye Zhen, who was the villain’s wife, naturally wouldn’t be to escape the law’s pursuit. She spent the rest of her life in jail.

The novel’s Ye Zhen was Ye Zhen, and she was herself. They were two different people. Although she was Lu Beichuan’s wife, he was comatose right now. The immense sea allowed the fish to leap freely. The vast sky allowed the birds to fly freely. As long as she figured out a way to leave Lu family within one month, she would be free. After that, she could live out the rest of her life happily.

As for what would happen to Ye family after she left, why should she care?

If they had ability, they should go find Ye Qing and bring her back.

The knocking on the other side of the door interrupted her train of thought.

“Good morning, Miss Ye.” An old butler, who had been serving the Lu family for many years, was respectfully standing right outside the door. A small cart was pushed inside. There were all sorts of tools that were used to clean Lu Beichuan on the cart.

The Lu family had a long history. Not only did their ancestors leave behind an enormous fortune, they also left behind old-fashioned and pedantic rules.

She was Lu Beichuan’s wife, so when she woke up every day, her first duty was to clean her husband’s body.

Ye Zhen accepted the towel from the butler and dampened it in the basin of warm water, then she pushed aside the quilt that was covering Lu Beichuan. She untied the top part of his pajamas and wiped his arms, shoulders, abdomen, and other areas.

This task had to be done every day, but the Lu family insisted that only she could do it.

In the past, a professional caretaker would come to wipe and wash Lu Beichuan’s body. However, after Ye Zhen married into the Lu family, they repeatedly told her that only she could have intimate skin contact with Lu Beichuan’s body.

What year did they think they were in? Why did they still observe so many rotten ideas from the feudal era?

Under the butler’s attentive eyes, Ye Zhen truly didn’t have any leeway for laziness. She was extremely careful and conscientious as she wiped Lu Beichuan’s body. She cleaned his body like she was cleaning a piece of art. When she first came here, her entire face would flush, and she had no idea what to do. But now, she remained calm, and her expression didn’t even change when she did this task.

It was all thanks to her hard work in looking at so many naked Greek statues. Moreover, Lu Beichuan’s body wasn’t any worse than those statues.

Ye Zhen turned around, washed the towel in the warm water, and wrung it mostly dry. Then, she softly wiped Lu Beichuan’s cheek. The silhouette of his facial features was distinct and deep. This man’s appearance was simply flawlessly handsome. She just didn’t know what his eyes would like once he opened them. Would it look the eyes in last night’s dream? Brooding and deeply cold.

Using the towel, she cleaned Lu Beichuan’s ear. When she gently pinched his earlobe, she suddenly saw Lu Beichuan’s eyelids moving and could clearly see his eyeballs moving underneath his eyelids. It looked as if he was going to open his eyes in the next second. Ye Zhen noticed this, but she still nonchalantly continued cleaning his ear.

In the beginning, Ye Zhen thought Lu Beichuan was really about to wake up, but the family’s doctor told her it was a normal nerve reflex for his fingers as well as eyes to twitch occasionally.

When she thought about it, the doctor’s words made sense. In the novel, Lu Beichuan wouldn’t wake up for another month. It wasn’t time yet.

After she finished cleaning him, Ye Zhen warmed up lotion in her hands, and then her warm palms rubbed the lotion all over Lu Beichuan’s body. Ye Zhen saw that Lu Beichuan’s pinky finger on his right side was brusied.

It was strange. Although other people who were comatose for a year hadn’t deteriorated to the level of being emaciated, their physical condition wasn’t good. No matter what, the state of their bodies weren’t as well preserved as Lu Beichuan’s.

After the cleaning and moisturizing was done, Ye Zhen was so tired that she couldn’t even keep her back straight. She put Lu Beichuan’s clothes back on and pulled up the quilt.

The sixty-plus-year-old butler, who had served the Lu family his entire life, respectfully said to Ye Zhen, “You’ve worked hard.”

Ye Zhen docilely smiled. She didn’t say anything and went into the bathroom to wash up.

Right after she entered the bathroom, a specialized doctor and nurse came into the room to check Lu Beichuan as well as use medical tools to feed him.

This procedure wasn’t within the scope of Ye Zhen’s abilities.

After washing up, Ye Zhen glanced at him from a distance, and then she went downstairs.

In the dining room, Lu Beichuan’s parents as well as a young man were sitting at the dining table. The head seat wasn’t empty. Old Master Lu hadn’t come.

“Dad, mom, good morning.”

Father Lu glanced at Ye Zhen and nodded.

Ye Zhen looked at the empty head seat and casually asked, “Where’s grandfather?”

“Old Master went back to the ancestral home for a few days. How is Beichuan today?” Mother Lu was neatly dressed with exquisitely done makeup. It was absolutely impossible to guess her real age. Presenting a magnificent appearance was Mrs. Lu’s last way of maintaining her status as the legitimate wife in front of the illegitimate son.

To maintain her surface appearance of being someone who was inarticulate and mediocre, Ye Zhen lowered her head slightly and said, “Everything is still good.”

Mother Lu put down her bowl and chopsticks. In a worried tone, she said, “You have to do your best and be more thoughtful.