Shen Fuling is sold by her uncle and aunt to Zhang the Butcher for thirty taels of silver, to become his third wife.
She refuses. That very night, she flees the village and sells herself into Prince Yan’s household, starting out as a lowly maid-of-all-work.
No family connections, no backing, unable to read, and without even a decent set of clothes
all she has is a pair of eyes that can see through people and a heart that refuses to accept its fate.
In the inner household’s secret battles, she finds a way through with “simple methods.” In the turmoil of court politics, she settles the matter with “plain truth.”
The cold-faced prince goes from looking down on her to being unable to live without her. The spoiled princess goes from picking fights to calling her sister-in-law.
Everyone says, “You don’t follow the rules.”
She says, “The rules? I am the rules.”
