A Tale of Brocade and Begonias

"I'll tell you a secret. My mother is the Empress Dowager. The emperor is actually my younger brother, born of the same mother but a different father." Jin Tang felt incredibly unlucky that day. She'd only slipped out to see the world, but she'd ended up stumbling into someone else's closely guarded secret, and what a shocking secret it was. Fortunately, the man was quite drunk. She quietly slipped away, pretending she hadn't heard or seen a thing. But who would have thought that half a month later, at a spring outing banquet, Cui Sanlang, the most famous, upright, and refined gentleman in the capital region, would point at her with wild abandon and crook his finger. "You. Come here." But she was just the daughter of a minor official! "My name is Cui Sanlang, but it's not because I'm the third son." Theme: Redemption and passion