On the first day of the first month of the Shen-You year. Wang, wife of Jia She, the second son of the Rongguo House, gave birth to a baby girl. Given the date of her birth, she was named Yuanchun. The two houses celebrated together. As it happened, the eldest grandson, Jia Zhu, had just reached the age of seven. The Dowager Lady Shi was delighted and presented the two children with a pair of gold-and-jade ruyi scepters as a token of good fortune. This is what the Jia family chronicle recorded that day.
The first character in Yuanchun's name means first among the girls. Aside from the elders, no woman in the Jia family could rival her. The final character, Chun, did not carry the vulgar meaning it might in a humble household. Rather, it drew auspiciousness from the season of her birth.
A direct descendant of Duke Rong, a daughter of noble standing, heir to wealth beyond measure: all of it made her the most exalted woman in Jinling. She ought to have been willful and overbearing, arrogant and haughty, with ambitions reaching for the sky, even picky and sharp-tongued. And yet, looking at the gentle and gracious Jia Yuanchun before them, no one could associate her with any of those words.
The second master's name is Jia Zheng. When writing a heroine, at least don't make a mistake about her father!