Second Master Lian’s Road to the Civil Service Exams

As Jia Lian lies dying, his life flashes before his eyes: from a rich young master who lived in drunken indulgence to a prisoner sent into exile after his family was ruined. The people he wronged most in his life were surely his daughter, Qiaojie, and his Lin cousin, Daiyu, who died in the Jia family. But who in the Jia family ever treated Daiyu right? If he got another chance, would he, as the family's “outside steward,” be able to do much beyond telling Wang Xifeng to be a little kinder to Daiyu? Still, what if he could?