A Concubine Brought in to Bring Good Fortune, Yet the Duke Insists on Giving Her a Way to Live

[Historical Romance + Household Power Struggles + Political Scheming + Concubine Assigned to Bring Good Fortune + Survival Through Pretending + Rise to Power]

After Shen Heng’s family is confiscated, she is sold into the Duke of Zhenguo’s household and made the concubine of Pei Jue, the disabled eldest son, in the hope that she will bring him good fortune. The main branch demands that she become pregnant within a year: if she fails, the clan will deal with her; if she succeeds, the child belongs to the household, and she still has no way out.

To stay alive, she acts meek, studies the account books, and scrimps and saves, all while planning to flee to Jiangnan. A bowl of cold bird’s nest soup, a burner of intoxicating incense, and several pounds of silver frost charcoal that have gone missing lead her to uncover the main branch’s most shameful accounts. The second master, Pei Heng, who values propriety above all, sees through her disguises time and again, yet also pulls her out of one deadly predicament after another.

Just as her fake pregnancy plan is about to succeed, the teacup in his hand shatters.

This time, will he give her a way to live, or make her stay?