An Nan’er, the Chancellor’s beloved daughter, is beautiful and doted on, but frail. She needs someone to support her after only a few steps, so she has spent years cooped up in the inner chambers. Rumors say she is ugly and uncouth.
She is about to reach marriageable age, yet no one dares come asking for her hand.
At a poetry gathering, one glimpse of her is enough to take his breath away.
The Chancellor immediately puts on his court robes and, trembling, begs the emperor to let the illegitimate son of the Minister of Justice marry into his family as a live-in son-in-law, bringing good fortune to his ailing daughter.
On their wedding night, the young woman asks with red-rimmed eyes, “Are you unhappy that you married me?”
The person beside her stiffly replies, “No…”
I was short of books and found a particularly good book. The author must update it as soon as possible! 😘😘😘