Red Beans Grow in the Southern Land

"Red beans grow in the southern lands. How many branches sprout when spring arrives? I hope you gather them in abundance, for these beans best express longing."

The third year of the Dazhong era.

Suzhou.

Until she was ten, Xiao Hongdou lived cut off from the world with her mother in a house deep within a bamboo forest.

One day, a man suddenly burst into their home, gravely wounded and on the brink of death.

As soon as the man left, her mother was killed by a mysterious assailant.

"Come with me to Chang'an."

"I have no other choice."

"I never imagined you were a princess who had been living among the common people!"

"Then, would you be willing to become my husband?"

"I wasn't the one who pushed your eldest legitimate son into the river."

"Even if you really did it, I could only forgive you."

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to real persons or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.