Broken Jade Woven into Brocade

Name: Broken Jade Woven into Brocade
Author: Tao Moke

碎玉成锦

by Tao Moke (陶墨客)

Status: Completed
Length: 122k Words
Genre: Ancient Romance
Subgenre: Ancient-Style Life
Updated: 8mo ago
Source: Fanqie

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Synopsis

Three qian of silver for a three-year contract. Life or death is no concern; any child belongs to the Wen family.

On an autumn night of rain in Suzhou, her father coughs up blood and the family has nothing left. With a single stroke of her brush, Shen Xiuniang sells herself into a wealthy household, becoming the lucky-bride bride of Wen Yan, the ailing young master of the Wen family. The payment is three qian of silver a month, and the contract lasts three years. She thinks it is merely a cold transaction, never suspecting she has stepped into a tender dream woven with care.

At his sickbed, he teaches her to read and write, paints her eyebrows, and watches the moon with her. “This place is real,” he tells her. Bamboo shadows sway, and the days are peaceful. She gives him her heart and becomes pregnant with his child.

Until he coughs blood on the fifteenth of every month, right on schedule. Until she finds a secret letter in a hidden compartment in his study, marked “arrangements after the plan succeeds.” Until a tampered bowl of medicine makes her lose their child at an inn in a strange land, as snow falls all around...

So his deep affection was a lie, and the lucky-bride marriage was a scheme. She was only a pawn meant to “bear an heir,” discarded once she had served her purpose.

Three years later, the Wen residence in Suzhou is decked out for the matriarch’s seventieth birthday. Shen Fusu, an embroidery master from Lingnan, is renowned throughout the land. She arrives at the banquet with her astonishing embroidered work, A Tapestry of Broken Jade.

The halls are filled with nobles praising her work. Before everyone’s eyes, she looks up at Wen Yan, now “recovered,” with his lovely wife by his side and children gathered around him, and smiles. Every word is clear: “Young Master Wen, it’s been a long time.”

With her own hands, she will embroider this blood-soaked deception into the most dazzling revenge. She will also temper her shattered heart into an edge no one can ever dismiss again.

A fateful bond born of a contract, and a carefully plotted return. Now that the gentle mask has been torn away, how will he repay what he owes her?

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