With her family ruined and everyone gone, she was forced to become a child bride. She thought she was destined for a life of hardship, but a poor young man cherished her as his most precious treasure!
After lying unconscious for three years, Su Wanhe awoke to find her family destroyed. Her grandfather, father, and brothers had perished in a vast shipwreck, and the family had sold off all its land and homes. She and her grandmother were left with nowhere to turn.
With no other choice, her grandmother sent her to the Shen family to be a child bride.
She had already prepared herself for a life of backbreaking toil, bent over the fields and struggling to get by. But when she stepped into that poor little courtyard, the lonely young man there treated her like a treasure.
The young Shen Yanci had lost his parents early and was all alone. Cool and reserved, he spoke little, yet held great ambitions in his heart. He devoted himself to his studies, hoping to make his mark through the imperial examinations.
Su Wanhe takes charge of the household, turning coarse grains into delicious meals with her cooking and keeping the little courtyard neat and orderly. She also happens to meet a reclusive master and learns skills to strengthen and defend herself.
Through the years, she stays by Shen Yanci’s side as he faces the many trials of the imperial examinations, along with the turmoil of court politics and the dangers of the martial world.
She watches him rise step by step from an impoverished commoner to a man of immense influence at court.
High officials and nobles come calling to win him over, wealth and glory tempt him at every turn, and some even try to force him to marry a noblewoman.
But Su Wanhe and Shen Yanci always know their own hearts. They seek neither power nor worldly splendor.
Through hardship and storm, they stand by each other, doing everything they can to protect their hard-won love and remain together for all the years to come.
