Mei Siyue transmigrated into the body of the illegitimate daughter of a seventh-rank county magistrate.
She thought that, at least, she was a magistrate's daughter, so she could keep her head down and enjoy a carefree life...
But just a few days after she arrived, her scumbag father got into trouble, and her legitimate mother set her sights on the concubines and their daughters.
Could she put up with that?
Mei Siyue seized the chance to persuade her legitimate mother to get her scumbag father to give her soft-hearted concubine mother a letter of release. Then she took her mother and ran back to her father's hometown.
Life in the countryside, keeping the old matriarch company, tending flowers and fields, and doing nothing much sounded great.
Cheng Si was born into the prestigious Cheng family of Hedong. He was young, but held a senior place in the family hierarchy.
When the old master of the Cheng family was governor of Jiangling, he encountered bandits on the road. While fleeing, he was separated from his retainers and guards. With no money and on the verge of starvation, he was taken in by an old woman who was gathering wild vegetables. She gave him food and shelter for four days, until the surviving retainers and guards found him.
When the old master left the woman's home, he carved the character "Cheng" onto a wooden tablet for her. He also asked his retainers and guards to gather more than sixty taels of silver for her, telling her that if her youngest son, who was studying, ever made something of himself, she could take the tablet he had carved and go to the Cheng family in Hedong to find him.
But in the decades that followed, the old master never saw the wooden tablet he had carved with his own hands.
On his deathbed, he asked his youngest son, Cheng Si, to visit the village where it had happened and look up the descendants of his benefactor. If they needed help, he should give them a hand.
Cheng Si went to Mei Village, where the first person he met was his benefactor's granddaughter.
When she heard why he had come, the little girl acted as if he were a snake and shoved the wooden tablet at him.
She said something he couldn't understand: "Uncle, take the tablet and go! Don't even think of repaying me by marrying me. We're just a humble family. We don't have that kind of idea."
Cheng Si frowned. Had this girl misunderstood something?
Later... Uncle Cheng Si: "Well, I wouldn't mind repaying you by marrying you!"
There's an age gap. Ten years is probably quite a lot, so please bear that in mind before reading!
Theme: There's sunshine everywhere in life
