When Meng Yunqing was six, she watched her mother be tortured to death. The shock left her unable to speak ever again.
For the next twelve years, she was forced to become a silent dog at her legitimate elder sister’s side.
When she was eighteen, her father, in order to save his legitimate son, arranged her marriage to the notorious Ninth Imperial Uncle, said to be cruel and brutal, in place of her elder sister.
On her wedding day, she waited anxiously in the bridal chamber. But the man who came was as handsome as a jade tree, smiling as he said, “You deserve this good fortune.”
From then on, he did everything in his power to protect her.
The Marquis’s eldest son pinned her to the ground and made her watch as they dug up her mother’s grave. They wanted her to accept her fate and spend her whole life as a lowly nobody.
But every ounce of suffering she endured, he would make them repay a hundred, a thousand times over!
They all said the mute girl from the Meng family had no one to cherish or love her. The Ninth Imperial Uncle, whose power held sway over the court, swept her into his arms. “Who says my wife has no one to cherish her?”
