A Wedding to Bring Good Fortune

Rong Xinlu was the daughter of a tenant farmer on the Jing family's land. Honest and forthright, she had spent her childhood running wild in the fields. Jing Yiwen was the third young master of a century-old family. Clever and precocious, he was nonetheless frail and had been confined to his sickbed since childhood. On the seventh day of the fourth month of the third year of the Dahong era, they met in Jing Tian Garden on the Jing estate. That day, Rong Xinlu was in the prime of her youth, while Jing Yiwen had only just reached his early teens. Yet that very night was their wedding night! They first met because their marriage was meant to bring him good fortune... One-line summary: A lively girl and a sickly young man. Mostly cozy family life. This is a fictional setting, and a very fictional one at that. Completed works: The Way of a Scholar's Wife, The Scholar's Steady Rise to the Clouds, Sunflowers Facing Away from the Light, Meeting in Memories of a War-Torn Era, Returning Souls, May the Land and Rivers Remain as They Were Currently updating: Why Does She Only Want to Cling to a Powerful Man? In the years after Xu Maiqiu abandoned him, Han Yanqing made one remarkable comeback after another on the civil service examination path. He eventually came third in the palace examination, rising from a poor scholar to the youngest newly appointed top scholar in the history of the Great Ming Dynasty. Over the next five years, his career soared and his official fortunes flourished. He became the dream man of the unmarried noblewomen of the capital. Yet during his years in office, Lord Han kept himself above reproach. No one had ever heard of him taking an interest in women. That is, until the emperor personally appointed him an inspecting censor and sent him to tour the provinces on the emperor's behalf... In the years after leaving Han Yanqing, Xu Maiqiu married, was widowed before the wedding, and lived an anything-but-peaceful life in Pinghai County, running her in-laws' pastry shop. To live in peace, Xu Maiqiu went without makeup and dressed plainly. She had a fiery temper, but even that couldn't keep trouble away from a widow's door. She struggled to fend it off until Inspecting Censor Lord Han arrived... Every rekindled romance after a broken relationship has been in the works for a long time. A cool, proud, chaste censor and a spirited, feisty, hardworking young widow Everyday food and domestic life, historical fantasy, sweet romance, happy ending A widow betrothed to a man who died before they married is called a