Before entering service as a maid, Guan Xiazhi knew only music, chess, calligraphy, and painting, and how to be proper and refined.
After becoming a maid, Guan Xiazhi learned what it meant to be a fish on a chopping board, a scapegoat, and to suck up to those above while looking down on those below, then get nothing but contempt and cold leftovers.
No one listed as a lowly servant in the government register doesn't want a different life.
> Her ambitions aren't great, but her nerve is. Clever men conquer the world; clever women conquer men.
----One-sentence warning about this novel.
Theme: Well done.