Return My Pearl

When Shen Mingzhu was ten years old, her mother died. Her father, wanting to remarry, saw her as a burden and sent her off to her maternal grandmother's house. Fortunately, her cousin's mother had been close to her own mother and couldn't bear to see her suffer alone, so she took her to the Xie family in the capital. Beneath the glazed tiles of the bustling, flower-filled capital, the very first person Shen Mingzhu laid eyes on after settling in was her exceptionally handsome cousin—Xie Qinglin. She stared at him in a daze, momentarily mistaking him for an immortal. For the next five years, Shen Mingzhu desperately tried to mold herself according to her cousin's preferences. He admired n...