The Noble Lady and the Mad Dog

Wang Si grew up on an island. But when she was fifteen, she was told that she was a daughter of the Great Wei Wang clan. Her uncle wanted her to return to the family, so she made the long journey to Chang'an. The Wang family had found their legitimate daughter, who had been lost outside the family. The people of the capital secretly laughed: this Wang girl had grown up in the countryside and was even disabled, unable to walk properly. She would surely never amount to anything. Who could have guessed that, as soon as Wang Si arrived in the capital, her calligraphy would surpass everyone at the Imperial College? A master musician would recognize her casual playing as the work of a kindred spirit, and she could read the skies to predict the weather. No one dared call her an ignorant country girl anymore. But the world didn't know that Wang Si's true strength was her photographic memory. She carried thousands of classic texts in her mind, and could bring prosperity to this turbulent world, newly at peace, by developing waterworks and cultivating better crops. * Qin Shen, the seventh prince of Great Wei, was the youngest legitimate son of the empress. Having once lived among commoners, he had a mercurial temperament. When the Wang family's daughter from the countryside was framed and offended the seventh prince, everyone waited for a spectacle. But the prince, so famously unpredictable, bent down and looked at the girl with an unprecedented tenderness. "A Si?" He had once been a slave, his life worth less than a blade of grass, cursed and whipped every day. Someone rescued him, taught him to read and write, and sent him back to his parents. She was a little girl, not even as old as he was. Qin Shen had always called her A Si. Theme: Facing life with optimism and positivity