[Abandoned. Read at your own risk]
1. There’s a secret on everyone’s lips in the capital:
Song Xiyue, the legitimate daughter of the Song family, is actually the daughter of a lowly servant. The real heiress was switched at birth and abducted by that servant. After years of twists and turns, Song Qingxue was eventually sold to the Song household as a maid.
Once the Song family learned the truth, they showered the daughter they had lost and found again with love and doubled their efforts to make up for all she had suffered.
Song Xiyue couldn’t accept losing her former status, position, and exclusive affection. She repeatedly plotted against Song Qingxue, only to bring about her own downfall.
2. It was a warm spring day in the third month, with willows swaying in the breeze and grass growing lush as orioles flitted about. The Xi family, stationed far away in the southern frontier to defend the borders, had won a battle and returned to the capital as a clan.
The common folk lined the streets to welcome them. From afar, they saw that the rider on the imperial steed at the head of the procession was not the mighty General Xi, but a young woman with a radiant smile.
On closer inspection, she even bore a faint resemblance to the late illegitimate heiress of the Song family.
As everyone wondered who she was, General Xi stood protectively beside the steed and addressed the emperor, who had personally come to the city gate to welcome them.
“Yue’er is my Xi family’s adopted daughter. She’s frail and can’t travel far. Your Majesty is gracious and considerate toward your subjects, so I’m sure you won’t mind if the steed changes owners, will you?”
The emperor replied, “You jest, my dear subject. Of course I don’t mind.”
Who didn’t know that the little girl on the horse was the apple of your entire family’s eye and the treasure of your hearts?
