[Alternate Republican Era, comeback, rival suitors, feel-good story with a little angst and lots of sweetness] Su Xiaowan was just a scullery maid sold from the countryside to the Jin household. Her price was ten silver taels, not even enough to buy one bracelet from a wealthy lady.
But Su Xiaowan had no intention of accepting her lot in life. In the six months since entering the household, she had been watching for an opportunity. She would not spend her whole life serving others as a maid.
Then, at the Jin family's New Year's banquet, Su Xiaowan met the eldest young master, who had returned home: Jin Anian, the renowned Commander-in-Chief.
When Commander Jin looked her way with unmistakable interest, Su Xiaowan knew her chance had come.
And so begins Su Xiaowan's splendid rise from maid to the commander's wife, the Jin family's principal madam.
