Though Shen Qingli is the adopted daughter of the Northern Prince’s manor, she is its most cherished young princess. She is also the personal disciple of Changsun Wuji, master of Medicine King Valley. When she hears that her birth mother has come looking for her, Shen Qingli deliberately changes into a servant’s clothes and even gives herself the identity of a pig-raising maid. She wants to find out whether her birth parents truly want her back.
Xie Shuyan looks at her birth daughter with undisguised disdain, her adopted daughter Lin Jiaojiao by her side. If not for the fact that her adopted daughter needs to marry into the Third Prince’s manor, Xie Shuyan would never acknowledge this birth daughter. If the noble ladies of the capital learned that her daughter was a pig-raising maid, her reputation would be ruined.
Lin Jiaojiao: “So what if you’re the Marquis’s biological daughter? You still have to marry into the Jingnan Marquis’s manor in my place!”
Thinking about her own upcoming marriage into the Third Prince’s manor, Lin Jiaojiao does her best to persuade Xie Shuyan to bring her younger sister home.
Shen Qingli returns to the Lin family full of hope, only to discover that nobody seems to welcome her. Even her grandmother, who acts as if she dotes on her, is merely trying to spite her dear mother.
Xie Shuyan even throws her into a courtyard overgrown with weeds.
Shen Qingli doesn’t want a family like this at all.
When Xiao Yanzhi hears that the legitimate daughter of the Lin family he is supposed to marry is an ugly, broad-built woman, he decides to match her with the ugliest man in the capital, Su Jichuan, a Court of Judicial Review official and the fifth prince born to the former empress, just to spite her.
But when the Lin family’s so-called fiancé tries to push her onto that man, Shen Qingli decides she’s interested.
