Four Happiness Meatballs
With a woman's disguise on one hand and a knack for cheating and swindling on the other, Tong Xi, a child bride, finally makes the long journey from Shu to Chang'an. Using every trick in the book, she sneaks into Lishan Academy.
She never expected the first thing she would see to be not her long-awaited fiancé, but another man's naked body, from the front...
Chen Changbi decides to give the little beggar who watched him bathe, then looked disgusted and swore at him, a good mouth-washing. But to his surprise, that mouth-washing turns out to be a little girl.
Hm? A little girl? Then she needs even more thorough discipline.
Three months later.
Chen Changbi: "Why don't I adopt you as my daughter?"
Tong Xi, who's been disciplined until she's snarling and wants to run away every day, refuses, of course. You think you could have a daughter as old as me?
Another three months pass.
Now aware that it's nice to have a powerful patron, Tong Xi brings up the old offer again. "Why don't I acknowledge you as my adoptive father?"
Chen Changbi gives her a cool glance. "I couldn't have a daughter as old as you."
A more sentimental blurb:
Life always begins with some disappointments, but you still have to keep going. If you make it through the withered days, perhaps you'll find yourself surrounded by flowers.
