Lin Xiaoman spent thirty years in the modern world as the poster child for being “single since birth” among her friends: she'd never dated or flirted with anyone. Her only moment of excitement was when the food delivery guy brought her fried chicken on time. While working late on a proposal, she suddenly suffered a heart attack. When she opened her eyes again, she'd become the abandoned young madam of an ancient general's household. The original was a scholar's daughter whose family had fallen on hard times. Her stepmother sold her for fifty taels of silver to the General's household, where she was meant to bring good fortune to the old general, who supposedly had less than three days to live. But the old general died on the day of the wedding, and she became a “jinx” who had supposedly caused her father-in-law's death as soon as she entered the household. The general's second son, Xiao Jingyuan, dumped her in this remote estate, claiming it was so she could observe mourning rites, when in truth he was waiting for her to “die in an accident.”
