I was reborn on the day Shen Jinghan came to the General's Mansion to propose marriage. Everyone in the mansion, as well as the people outside the courtyard wall watching the excitement, were sure that I, the arrogant and domineering daughter of the general's palace, would humiliate this poor scholar and then have him beaten with sticks. Shen Jinghan thought so himself. His hands hanging by his sides were clenched tightly, and the hem of his coarse cloth gown was stained with dust. It was obvious that he had traveled all the way.
