A merchant's daughter who stays calm even when Mount Tai collapses before her. Honest, but loves putting on a show. Born with a lucky-fish constitution: whoever treats her well is rewarded with good fortune falling from the sky.
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A pampered young prince who willingly becomes a servant. Tough-talking and awkward, but always getting the short end of the stick. I only came to repay a debt, so why doesn't my wife love me?
After going missing for fifteen years and finally being found, Yun Zhuyue, the family's real daughter, became its "cousin from out of town."
She poured her heart into winning over her family, but her mother and brothers tried to burn her alive for the sake of her fake younger sister.
Reborn, she decided that whoever wanted this family could have it.
All she wanted was to save her loyal servants, claim the family fortune, and make the business her grandfather left behind flourish.
But when a little scheming of hers made that mother and daughter embarrass themselves in front of some powerful figures, one of them said:
"I have five sons, but not a single daughter. Come be my daughter. It's settled."
Yun Zhuyue: ?
And so Yun Zhuyue embarked on a quest to find mothers.
Her first adoptive mother was a daughter of the imperial clan, her second was the richest woman in Jinling, her third was a renowned physician, and her fourth was a killer from the underworld...
What's more, each adoptive mother came with several sons in tow.
Eighteen big brothers lined up to spoil her rotten.
When her birth mother and brothers lost everything and knelt, begging her to come back...
Yun Zhuyue: Sorry, I'm too busy finding mothers. The line for the crematorium starts over there.
Xuan Yanqing was framed, lost his memory, and became a beggar. Fortunately, a woman saved him.
To repay her kindness, after returning to the prince's residence, he decided to take her as his consort.
But the woman burned herself to death.
He, too, soon died, the poison he'd suffered as a child having done too much damage.
After his death, he was reborn. He wanted to ask the woman: even if she didn't want to marry him, why go so far as to set herself on fire?
But this time, she never saved him at all.
That wicked woman... If she wouldn't come to him, he'd go to her.
And so a new shop assistant, bought for the job, appeared at the Yun family's store.
The young assistant could read, do the books, and fight. He was also strikingly handsome, but had a terrible temper. Only the eldest young lady could keep him in line.
At first, he said, "Once I've repaid my debt, I'll leave. She doesn't need to know a thing."
Later, he arrived late to a banquet. When everyone teased him about the beauty he was keeping hidden, he replied with a calm expression:
"She's clingy. A bit of a nuisance."
Later still, just as he felt the time was right to ask for her hand and make her his consort, she started meeting men everywhere to discuss marriage.
He couldn't take it anymore and forcibly brought her back to the prince's residence.
Yun Zhuyue: "Your Highness is so highly born and precious. You'd be better off not entangling yourself with a mere merchant's daughter like me."
He ground his teeth. "Weren't the men you've been meeting the past few days sons of high officials and princes of noble houses?!"
Yun Zhuyue blushed. "My adoptive mothers mean well. I couldn't very well refuse..."
That night, she slipped away, only to find someone had packed a bundle and followed her.
"Where are you going, Your Highness?"
"Home!"
Yun Zhuyue looked up at his magnificent palace.
Xuan Yanqing ignored her and stormed off in a huff. "I'm going back to the shop! I'll keep working as an assistant!"
Much, much later, Xuan Yanqing finally won the heart of the woman he loved. But when he was preparing to propose, it belatedly dawned on him that something was wrong.
He had four mothers-in-law!
Even the black cat at Ah Yue's side dared to meow at him.
Three months later, the servants at the prince's residence wondered aloud:
"Has our prince still not finished proposing?"
"Almost. He's at the third adoptive mother's place this month. She's nearly ready to give her blessing..."
Theme: A daughter should make her own way in the world
