[Two Powerful Leads] [Revenge and Face-Slapping] [Household and Court Intrigue] [Putting Scumbags in Their Place] [Everyone's Favorite]
Shen Linyi, a seamstress from the lowly registered class in Jiangnan, once supported a scholar who went on to place third in the imperial examinations.
On the day messengers arrived from the capital with the good news, all the neighbors praised her for her keen eye and good choice. They said she would soon be taken to the capital to become the scholar's wife.
But the carriage carrying her took her to a nunnery instead.
It turned out the scholar only wanted her as an unacknowledged mistress, with no title or status.
"You're nothing but a seamstress from the lowly registered class. You think you can be my proper wife?"
"If you obediently bear me a son and take good care of my mother, then after I marry a noblewoman and secure my position, I might let you be my concubine. Otherwise, you can look forward to being trapped here for the rest of your life!"
But the scholar didn't know that he wasn't the only person Shen Linyi had helped.
And Shen Linyi wasn't going to the capital because of him.
The next day, Shen Linyi took out a keepsake and knocked on the door of the Duke of Dingguo's residence. "I hear your young marquis is looking for a woman?"
