Everyone Says the Fourth Miss of the Zhou Family Shouldn't Cut Ties

Everyone says the Zhou family's daughter should never have severed ties with her family.

Zhou Yunyue had a hard life.

After cutting ties with the Zhou family, she did indeed struggle to get by.

But did Zhou Yunyue ever regret it? No! If you asked her, she would say that if she hadn't left, she would never have seen a world she had once thought beyond her reach.

She was falsely accused of having an affair with someone, and her heart was full of grievances. No one would give her justice. The First Madam refused, while her eldest and third elder sisters made things worse with their embellishments.

She knelt in the ancestral hall and endured the family punishment. Yet she never gave in. She had done nothing wrong!

In the end, the truth came out.

She listened as her third elder sister told her in the ancestral hall that the Tang family of Taiyuan had an engagement agreement with the Zhou family. The Tang family's young master flatly refused to marry a principal wife, saying he would only take a concubine. Naturally, the eldest sister, the Zhou family's legitimate daughter, could no longer marry him. If the Zhou family wanted to remain on good terms with the Tangs, they could only send another daughter, a concubine-born girl, to become his concubine.

So it didn't matter whether she was guilty! In fact, having something to blame her for was exactly what everyone wanted.

How ridiculous! Ha, she had learned the truth, but the truth about her had never come to light! With tears in her eyes, Zhou Yunyue left the ancestral hall. The next day, her father told her he had found her a marriage match. A concubine to the Tang family? Completely disillusioned, Zhou Yunyue immediately informed her parents that she was determined to sever ties with them.

They could throw her out of the house or erase her from the clan.

From that day on, she would leave the Zhou family, and her marriage would be none of their concern.

Everyone says the Zhou family's daughter should never have severed ties. A woman alone, making her own way in the world, would face countless hardships. The Tang family of Taiyuan was a great clan with a history of a hundred years. Even as a concubine, she would have fine clothes and food, and a worry-free life.

But Zhou Yunyue simply refused!

With a maid by her side, Zhou Yunyue walked out of her home. Only then did she realize how vast the capital she'd lived in for fifteen years was, far beyond anything she had imagined. Officials and scholars, doctors and musicians, merchants and laborers... The world was full of every kind of person, and the roads stretched wide before her. Why should she have to rely on her looks to win one person's favor?

She could read and write, and she could sew and embroider. How could she really fail to make a living?

Later, a scholar told her, "When I pass the imperial exams, I'll come back and marry you."

Zhou Yunyue smiled calmly. "When you pass the exams, let's meet again as strangers."

Theme: The world is nowhere near as small as you imagine.