Wen Wanrong was the third daughter of a concubine-born branch of the family. As a child, she was taken into the palace to be raised by her aunt, Consort Shu. She had thought that once enough time had passed, she would be able to leave the palace and see her mother.
But she never expected the empress’s persecution, the consorts’ schemes, and the maids’ jealousy to ensnare her so completely that she could not escape.
When she finally made it home, her mother was gravely ill, her brother had turned against her, and her father treated her with indifference.
She married the young heir of the marquis’s household, her childhood sweetheart, but the marquis’s household was not as peaceful as she had imagined. The widowed old marquis wanted to marry a young beauty, putting her control of the household in jeopardy, while the woman her husband had once saved years ago arrived to collect on his romantic debt and demand a place in the household.
Fortunately, Wen Wanrong could handle it. It was nothing major.
[This is a fictional setting. Women come of age at eighteen, and men at twenty.]
[Palace and household intrigue + childhood friends + growing heroine + devoted to each other + one-on-one romance]
[Precocious and composed heroine vs. cheerful and lively hero]
