Springtime at the Marquis's Estate

Name: Springtime at the Marquis's Estate
Author: Yu Suibian

侯门春色

by Yu Suibian (余随便)

Status: Completed
Length: 503k Words
Genre: Ancient Romance
Subgenre: Ancient-Style Life
Updated: 2mo ago
Source: Fanqie

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Synopsis

A sweet young lady from Jiangnan / a great general stationed at the border.

Everyone knows that Pei Chong, Marquis of Wu’an, is decisive and ruthless, the sharpest blade at court. But no one knows that the little wife he brought home from Jiangnan is the truly dangerous one.

Yu Wan has been married into the marquis’s household for three years. While her husband fights at the border, she plays the pampered lady of the house: paying her respects to the old madam, learning etiquette, embroidering, balancing the books. She smiles at everyone and speaks in a soft, gentle voice. She’s even afraid to watch a chicken being slaughtered. Everyone thinks she’s a helpless little thing anyone can push around.

But

Embroidery isn’t all she can do.

She knows medicine, poison, and the ways of business. When everyone thinks she’s nothing but a delicate vine, she reveals her venomous thorns.

Every time Pei Chong finishes killing someone, he washes for a long time, afraid the stench of blood might upset his Wanwan.

But when he opens the door, he finds his little wife turning a piece of amber in her hand, a cold glint in her eyes he has never seen before.

“Marquis,” she says with a smile, “who should we kill next?”

Only later does all of the capital learn that the sharpest blade of the Marquis of Wu’an has never been the sword in his hand. It’s the woman at his side, who smiles as she plots to take a life.