As the eldest legitimate daughter, she should have enjoyed boundless honor and affection. But fate played a cruel trick on her. Her mother died when she was three. Her father soon remarried, bringing home a stepmother and a half-sister who was just half a month younger than her.
Her stepmother was clever and ruthless. The younger sister always seemed to show her most obedient side in front of their father, while Ye Qingge became the unwanted one in the household. Her father’s coldness and neglect gradually froze Ye Qingge’s heart.
As time went by, whenever her stepmother punished Ye Qingge, she would soon take to her bed, stricken by an unknown illness. Her younger sister’s behavior also grew strange. Once, she brought servants along to push Ye Qingge into the freezing lake, but just as she was gloating, she somehow fell in herself and nearly drowned. Everyone in the household was baffled. Ye Qingge hadn’t lifted a finger, so why did the people who bullied her always meet with misfortune? Ye Qingge’s reputation in the household grew increasingly uncanny.
When she was ten, she even rescued the bullied Third Prince by chance, never imagining she’d end up rescuing herself a husband.
