The Marquis’s Adopted Daughter Marries a Lowborn Powerful Minister

A stepdaughter of low status + a cousin whose origins are unknown + mutual devotion + love that comes naturally + happy ending + a brief “chasing his wife to the crematorium” arc

1. This story is set in an imaginary world and is entirely fictional, with no historical accuracy intended.

2. In this story, a married woman is referred to by her birth surname. For example, if Madam of the Xu household was born with the surname Wang, she would be called Madam Wang or Madam of the Xu household.

Jiang Qiyue is known to everyone as the “discarded daughter.” Her father passed the imperial examinations as a Presented Scholar and then abandoned his wife and daughter to remarry, like a modern-day Chen Shimei. She enters the marquis’s residence with her remarried mother and quietly makes a modest life for herself, never currying favor or drawing attention.

There is a young male cousin in the marquis’s household whose father is unknown. Supposedly, his father was a household servant, leaving his status awkward. Even though he holds power and enjoys the new emperor’s deep trust, not a single young woman in the household is willing to marry him. When the old madam of the marquis’s household is at her wits’ end, Jiang Qiyue steps forward and says, quietly but firmly, “I’ll marry him.”

One has low status; the other has mysterious origins. Despite the ridicule of outsiders, they resolutely make their way toward each other.