Shen Qingjiu thought being forced to the palace gates was bad enough. When she learned that even rejected brides couldn’t leave and would have to “grow old and die” there, she was completely dumbfounded.
Her father didn’t love her, and her mother had died. She was sent to live with her maternal grandmother as a child, but fortunately, her grandmother doted on her and taught her martial arts from a young age so she could protect herself.
Unfortunately, being spoiled had made her rather delicate. As she put it, “If you can solve a problem by crying, why use your fists?”
But she had a scoundrel for a father. To spare the daughter he had with his second wife from the deadly ordeal of being sent to the palace gates, he drugged Shen Qingjiu, deceived her, and sent her off as a prospective bride...
