Fu Linzhou is my maternal uncle, and the most useful weapon I have. Before he left, he promised me, "The times are unstable, and Yingzhou needs me to hold the fort. I'll come back and marry you within three years!" For those words, I waited three years. But he didn't deign to show up until the fifth. Fu Linzhou was lame and blind in one eye when he knelt in the ancestral hall to ask for my hand. But the woman he wanted to marry was my half-sister. "Family head, I want to marry Yan Xi." The room fell silent. I looked at the pair of star-crossed lovers kneeling at my feet, idly turning the dagger in my hand. The steward dutifully closed the door, ready to have the two of them carried away...
My Child Is Already Three, Yet They Still Fear I'll Compete with the Fake Heiress for Affection