It’s hard enough to be a concubine-born daughter. It’s even harder when you’re a concubine-born daughter in the Princess Royal’s household.
Weimeng was kept hidden in a corner of the courtyard until she was sixteen. Only then did she step outside its gates for the first time,
because her birth father and legitimate mother had chosen a “fine” match for her.
Weimeng lowered her head and thought it over.
Rather than let others dictate her fate, she might as well make the first move.
The fourth son of the neighboring household was well-read and handsome.
Why not find a chance to have an ordinary “chance encounter” with him?
Mu An, heir to the Duke of Huguo, was handsome and aloof, and notorious in the capital as a spoiled playboy.
The Empress Dowager had issued an edict ordering him to marry into the Princess Royal’s family.
The Princess Royal’s legitimate daughter was spoiled and overbearing, and not especially bright, either.
As he fretted over the matter, he suddenly heard that the Princess Royal had another daughter, a “sickly beauty” who had never shown her face.
Why not find a chance to have a natural “chance encounter” with this beauty?
And so, the Princess Royal’s second daughter, Weimeng, made her first public appearance, and she and Mu An, heir to the Duke of Huguo, had a spectacular, entirely unexpected “chance encounter” in front of everyone!
After they married, Weimeng carefully studied her husband’s preferences. He had a hidden ailment, and had only married her, a sickly woman, because of it.
Aunt Yun had said a wife must cater to her husband’s tastes!
Mu An watched his earnest, lovely wife holding her leaf cards, and the corners of his mouth twitched.
Catering to my tastes... Is this really the kind of hand I like?
Every heroine knows that her aunt was killed by her aunt before getting married... I'm not saying that the heroine is too stupid