Green Bamboo and Mountains

[Historical domestic intrigue, a beggar's rise, an unloved daughter with a father who doesn't care and a mother who doesn't love her, a shocking secret] Yu Zhu was a little beggar in Quanzhou City, until the prefect of Quanzhou took her in as his adoptive daughter and married her off to the legitimate eldest son of the Yongkang Marquis's household. Whether it was a twist of fate or deliberate planning can wait. The eldest son was a useless wastrel, so debauched that even at twenty-four or twenty-five, no one in the capital would marry him. Yu Zhu was married off in his place, only to face a husband who despised her, the world's greatest two-faced mother-in-law, and a handsome young brother-in-law... But that's not all: Yu Zhu harbors a secret no one knows, and only one person in all the world is aware of it...