Chi Xiyuan has a half-brother who is one year younger than her. When she was ten years old, his brother went to the border with his biological father.
Eight years later, her brother came back. Although he seemed a little alienated from her, he was still as attached to her as before.
At the dinner table, no one took Aunt Yue's words "Bringing you to the prime minister's house" seriously, but no one noticed that the heat on his face did not go down even after the meal.
Later, the men Chi Xiyuan's father admired for her appeared one after another: the eldest son of a concubine who defected from the Ministry of Rites and became a successful businessman, the timid but beautiful younger son of the minister of Dali Temple, the cold and dusty number one scholar from a poor family...
Seeing these people surrounding Chi Xiyuan, he panicked.
The night before the expedition, he was drunk and pulled Chi Xiyuan's sleeve and said pitifully: "Sister, I can do it too..."
