A clichéd, melodramatic old-school story.
The year he was sold to the prince's manor, Pei Yuan was seven.
His mother, desperate to make ends meet, wiped away her tears and promised she would buy him back with the ten taels of silver she got for signing away his freedom.
But year after year passed.
His younger brother came to own vast stretches of farmland and countless wives and concubines, while he remained an inconsequential servant at the prince's manor, not even worth remembering by name.
If he hadn't met Ji Zili.
He thought he would have stayed mediocre and accomplished nothing until the day he died.
But he did meet him.
And somehow, that wasn't a good thing either.
