The Fake Noble's Ascension

Lu Zheying paints better than anyone around her and has nothing else. Her stepmother and her half-brother have run the household against her for years, and in one month she is to be handed to an old landlord as his ninth concubine. She decides to break out of it. She builds a persona as a sickly noblewoman and uses it to draw the interest of Lin Mo, the young master of the Lin family, planning to borrow his standing to get into the capital art academy she has wanted since childhood. The plan puts her in front of Lin Mo's elder brother Nangong Yi, the ranking young nobleman in the capital, who reads her immediately as a schemer climbing on his family, and treats her accordingly. A princess, who is everything Lu Zheying is pretending to be, makes a point of harassing her as well. Lu Zheying keeps layering her approach to Lin Mo. Then a run of accidents leaves her and Nangong Yi bound together by the Seven Emotions and Six Desires curse, so every effort and every ache of hers passes straight into a man who despises her, and their paths start running together.