Kong Yuyan is here! The author has finished drafting the entire novel in advance
In dreams, I forget that I am a guest, and indulge in a fleeting moment of pleasure.
All those things you call lowly are hardly worth mentioning;
but the nobility I once believed in is the most shameful thing of all.
[Illegitimate daughter of a prominent clan x heir to the ancestral line and its rites]
Chunniang, a courtesan at the Deyue Pavilion, was sent back after a round of pai gow at the Shuntian gambling house, won by the gambling-addicted cousin of Lord Kong, a prominent gentleman from Lingnan.
Six months later, Kong Yuyan was born.
She was the least welcome young lady in this great clan. Her father belonged to a collateral branch, no one knew how many hands her mother had passed through, and she might not even be a Kong at all.
When she turned sixteen, the Kong family decided they might as well let her bear the Kong name.
After all, this girl, glittering like pure gold, was worth far more than her mother, who had once been used as a gambling chip.
After a dull matchmaking meeting, she watched her refined, gentle cousin Kong Yuyan beneath the hibiscus tree, and jealousy made her eyes turn red.
Why? They both had the Kong name, yet he was the eldest son and heir to the ancestral line, admired by everyone, while she was nothing but a commodity waiting for the highest bidder.
If that was how things were, then she would reach up and pluck the lofty candle of the main branch.
Theme: What does responsibility mean?
