(Historical + romance + angst + fantasy) Read this warning first: this is not a wish-fulfillment novel.
The heroine, Wen Ruoyao, was born during the Great Yong dynasty.
At the time, powerful clans stood everywhere. The Wen family held a third-rank official post. Though not among the most powerful nobles, they guarded their only legitimate daughter with the utmost care.
Until the age of fourteen, Wen Ruoyao had been raised on candied fruit.
She could come and go as she pleased in her father's study and rummage freely through her mother's dressing case. Even the brocade prized by the capital's noble ladies and the pearls from the South China Sea were nothing more than ordinary playthings to her.
People in the household often said that if Third Miss sneezed, the entire Wen family would panic. She was the Wen family's shining pride, a treasure cradled in their palms, so cherished they would not even let the sunlight grow too harsh on her.
But no one expected that one day the web woven from all that love would become a noose tightening around her neck.
The year she turned fourteen, wedding finery was laid out at her door, but it led in a different direction.
(Extra chapters: romance + fantasy + everyday life) Be warned!!!
