The moment modern science student Xie Xingyao opens her eyes, her stepmother has already bundled her off and sold her to a decrepit old man with one foot in the grave.
She makes a break for it on the spot and crashes into the carriage of Prince Murong Jue, the Sixth Prince. She latches onto the prince’s residence to lie low, uses her scientific knowledge to get the aloof prince in line, silences the princess consort, and sends the Xie family’s emissaries packing.
But the prince can only keep her for a few days. There’s no avoiding it: sooner or later, she has to return to the Xie family.
No sooner has she returned home than the old man comes to force a marriage on her. Her family makes life difficult, and she has no one to rely on, yet she insists on building a career and making a place for herself through her scientific skills.
She makes money by inventing novel gadgets, foils her family’s schemes with her ingenuity, and stands up to the old man’s forced-marriage tricks. Meanwhile, that aloof prince secretly has her back and quietly dotes on her at every turn.
Who could have guessed that her success would catch the eyes of the princes and even the emperor, with favor from every direction coming her way?
She refuses to marry the old man and relies on herself, not the prince. From an unwanted daughter of the Xie family, she steadily makes a name for herself in the capital, living the life everyone envies, until she becomes the darling of the whole family.
