The Duke’s uncle is so charming that noble young ladies all trip over themselves for him... Pah! To her, he wasn’t just devilishly handsome. He was a terrifying demon in human form, a shameless rogue, and a complete scoundrel!
Did he think he could threaten her just because he knew she wrote chivalrous novels under the pen name Zhushan Xiansheng to earn royalties?
Hmph! She earned her own private savings fair and square. She had every right to, and nothing to fear!
Besides, she had deliberately kept a low profile and played the obedient concubine-born daughter to honor the original owner’s dying wish for an ordinary life. Yet he had the nerve to call her useless! And how was his own life as an idle duke’s uncle any better?
What was worse, he had taken a fancy to her without even asking whether she liked him back. He sent her a jade pendant as a token to claim her, and he had even figured out that she was a little miser at heart. When she accidentally stopped foreigners from seizing an iron mine, he went to the emperor and secured a reward of a thousand silver notes for her. He even gave her a box of tiny gold ingots shaped like fish, which made her so happy she had to count them carefully every night before bed. Ah, that’s how you give a gift: straight to the heart. See? Somehow, she’d ended up making room for him in hers, too. But according to her modern way of thinking, falling in love was a simple matter between two people. So why did she have to come first in the girls’ academy examination before he could marry her?
And why did his noble elder sister, the Empress Dowager, have to hold a chess tournament to test her abilities?
Honestly, she knew it. Getting involved with the imperial family was bound to bring trouble. So, excuse me, is it too late to return him now?
The content is explained very clearly in just a few chapters.