[Everyone's Favorite + Rivalry and Romantic Rivalry + Raising a Child + Melodrama + Push and Pull to the Limit + All Leads Are Chaste + Delicate, Soft-Hearted Heroine]
Jiang Tao'er, the village beauty, had a miserable first half of her life.
A beautiful woman without a powerful family is doomed. She grew up poor, though she was blessed with extraordinary beauty.
When she came of age, she was sold off.
After taking her virtue, her husband eloped with a wealthy widow.
The child she risked her life to deliver was stillborn, and then vanished without a trace.
To survive, and to find a benefactor who could help investigate her child's disappearance, she boldly entered the prince's manor and became wet nurse to the second young master.
The little master, whom no one else could comfort, smiled as soon as he saw her. He even had a birthmark just like hers.
The cold, stern heir, who was rumored to have no interest in women, had a voice and scent remarkably like the husband from her wedding night.
She seemed trapped in a maze. Each time she was close to uncovering the truth, the waters were muddied all over again.
And that wasn't all. The powerful men inside and outside the manor all treated her like a beautiful plaything. They wanted her for themselves, but none wanted to take responsibility.
As she spent her days navigating the company of the manor's powerful men, she gradually grew wiser.
To win back her son, she began playing a game of emotional hide-and-seek with them.
The tyrannical heir, a war god; the sickly, possessive Second Master; the rakish Third Master; and the aloof Fourth Master, the top scholar, were all stepping stones in her quest to get her son back.
When she turned and walked away with her child, the powerful men went mad!
Then, in a stunning turn of events, she became a foreign princess.
Jiang Tao'er watched the men who had once treated her like a plaything fight tooth and nail over her, and gave them a coquettish smile. “How amusing. But gentlemen, you all seem a little old!”
