When Ji Jialing was six years old, everyone in the Ji family was convicted. She was adopted as an adopted granddaughter by the old man of the Meng family.
The second uncle is eleven years older than her, and is the youngest second assistant in the Dasheng Dynasty. He has a cold appearance and cruel methods, and everyone in the court is afraid of him.
But the hairpin he picked for her was made of jade, not gold - "She doesn't like gold, so it's better to be plain."
She thought it was the sympathy of her elders.
Until Uncle Anping came to propose marriage, he stood at the door of the main hall and silenced the guests in the hall with a cold voice——
"I have the final say in her affairs."
She was fifteen years old that year, and she had a red mole between her eyebrows. She was still young and didn't understand what the dark layer under his eyes was.
Later she understood.
By the time you understand, it's already too late.
——He waited for her for eight years, from the second assistant to the first assistant, from restraint to madness, from the time she called him "Second Uncle" until she never spoke again.
[Powerful Minister × Orphan | Fake Uncle and Nephew | Forbidden Secret Love | Chasing Wife at the Crematorium | House Fight after Marriage | HE]
He has played countless chess games in his life, but this was the only one in which she was willing to give up.
