Liu Niang never thought that she could still wear a wedding dress.
She is thirty years old, born as a slave, with rough hands and old clothes. She has worked as a rough servant in the Fu Mansion for seven years. The master suspected that she was the spy of the imperial concubine, and the servants thought that she was of low fate, so all the dirty work fell on her. She didn't fight, she just kept her head down and worked, because she knew that life was more important than dignity.
Until the Fu family was cornered by an imperial edict.
The deposed King Zhao Qian will be exiled to Ning Guta, and the Fu family's legitimate daughter must marry as usual. Miss Fu kept crying, and the people in the mansion were afraid of death and could not bear the suffering of their noble daughter, so they put Liu Niang in the dowry list.
They thought they were just sending away an insignificant slave.
But after Miss Fu committed suicide on the way, Liu Niang was forced to assume the identity of a bride and became the nominal wife of King Zhao.
The wind and snow in Ninggu Pagoda were as sharp as a knife, and Zhao Qian was paralyzed in the broken house, covered with injuries, and had no idea of living. Liu Niang had no gold, silver, or backing, and only had a pair of hands accustomed to doing rough work.
She heated the kang, cooked vegetables and porridge, washed old clothes, massaged his legs and applied medicine, and also earned a meal for herself.
One just wants to die, the other just wants to live.
Later, she brought those who wanted to die back to the earth, and those who just wanted to live were lifted up into the clouds by him.
Those in the capital who once despised her finally understood: what really saved King Zhao was not the wedding dress of the noble girl, but the lamp that lit up for him in the bitter cold.
