Late spring in Yongning, the elegant Qin Fang gathering.
Noble families crowd the grand mansions, and young ladies from distinguished households vie to outshine one another. Splendor and riches fill the eye, while pearls and jade glitter everywhere.
Zhao Qiran arrives alone, dressed in plain clothes with a wooden hairpin. Poor and desolate, she is a speck of dust in everyone’s eyes, unworthy of notice.
One incense stick, one poem, a talent so dazzling that it astonishes everyone present.
It turns out that even someone born to humble means can conceal peerless talent, and a poor orphan girl can possess a spirit that defies frost.
Murong Yuan stands in the pavilion. Having seen enough affected displays of delicacy, he is already distracted, but one sentence from her, “All this splendor is fleeting. Why let it leave a stain?” throws his heart into disarray.
Noble young master vs. humble-born woman
The next book, A Single Embrace of the Bright Moon, is coming soon.
In the great city of Gusu, everyone has always been certain of one thing.
The Ming family has fallen.
Once the leading textile-manufacturing family in Jiangnan, they were unjustly accused and brought down overnight. Their clan scattered, their glory swept away. It was a hopeless defeat, and everyone who saw it mourned their downfall.
Everyone thought that after the Ming family fell, all that remained were crumbling walls and old ruins, battered by wind and rain, with no hope of ever rising again.
But no one expected this:
Ming Yue, the legitimate daughter of a family fallen from the clouds, is not about to accept her fate.
Her family is gone? She’ll rebuild it herself.
They’ve been wronged? She’ll clear their name, step by step.
Their business has collapsed? She’ll wield her needle as a blade and thread as her backbone. With the family’s inherited weaving skills, she’ll start from selling goods on the street, develop the business step by step, revive its fortunes, find her scattered relatives, and open up new trade routes.
While others bicker among themselves and fuss over romance, she keeps her head down, building her enterprise, securing its foundations, and steadily growing stronger.
Theme: Love, hate, anger, and obsession.
