I was the beautiful but useless youngest daughter of the Minister's household, and for three years I fawned over the young marquis, Xiao Ce, without missing a day.
After he used me as a stand-in for one night, I was unlucky enough to get pregnant.
The Shen family had been a family of upright officials for generations. A girl who lost her virtue before marriage had only one way out: death.
As I prepared to throw myself into a lake to force him to marry me,
I happened to hear him joking with a friend:
"If it weren't to get back at her father, would I ever let her cling to me?"
So I changed my mind on the spot.
I took my child and threw myself into someone else's arms.
But he died.
Theme: People need the courage to start over
