[A flirtatious, forthright, scheming stepmother vs. a sharp-tongued, seemingly mild-mannered but actually short-tempered young magistrate (a mock-literary style)]
The Xie patriarch took four more concubines and planned to elevate one of them to be his legal wife.
On the wedding day, the patriarch got drunk and passed out. With no other choice, Xie Shuq i, dismissed from her post and back home, took her father’s place in the wedding.
Who could have known that the patriarch would die in the courtyard that very night? Xie Shuq i had expected to find the woman there, but instead, her nominal stepmother was sitting in her own courtyard.
The woman looked composed, but her gaze flowed like moonlight.
She took a sip of tea and asked, “Were you looking for me, Shu’er?”
“I’ve been waiting for you a long time.”
The Xie family is run by Xie Shuqi, its head and the one who holds its power, while Jiang Baijin is mistress of the household.
After that, Jiang Baijin joined the Court of Judicial Review and couldn’t be driven away. Not only that, she came over to Xie Shuqi’s place to eat every day, acting demure while hiding her true intentions.
Xie Shuqi found her irritating. This woman was definitely plotting something against her.
And yet, somehow, when this woman approached and touched her with ulterior motives, Xie Shuqi welcomed it.
One day, Xie Shuqi asked her, “What do you really want?”
She replied, “What if I came here for you?”
At first, they were at odds (on one side only); later, they were inseparable.
The writing is very delicate and the characters are very interesting. The author will update it a lot.