Young Marquis Jiang Zai comes from a distinguished family and has been riding high since his youth. He's the foremost wastrel among the young nobles of the capital.
Xie Qingyun is a well-bred young lady and an orphan. She comes to the capital with her uncle to seek refuge with her mother's family, hoping her grandmother will find her a dependable husband so she can live in peace.
On the day she arrives, the two families' carriages meet on a narrow bridge. Xie Qingyun's cat startles Jiang Zai's horse, sending the young marquis tumbling into the river and humiliating him in front of everyone.
Furious, Jiang Zai ignores everyone's protests and throws open her carriage curtain. But when he sees the girl's picture-perfect face, he falls silent, then flees in a panic.
Thus begins a feud between the two that can never be settled.
Whenever Xie Qingyun takes a fancy to a hairpin or piece of jewelry, Jiang Zai must outbid her at any cost. When she opens a restaurant, he has to open an even better one right next door.
Jiang Zai puts his wastrel nature on full display until the young lady finally reaches the end of her patience.
But after waiting half a month, he doesn't get the revenge he imagined. Instead, he hears that Xie Qingyun is to be betrothed to the son of the Wang family.
Jiang Zai panics.
The fearless young marquis never imagined that one day he'd break into a young lady's chamber at night, his eyes red, just to beg her humbly:
"Xie Qingyun, I was wrong. Don't marry him."
Blurb two:
Everyone in the capital knows that Young Marquis Jiang comes from a distinguished family and has been surrounded by admirers since childhood. No matter how much trouble he causes, someone will always bail him out.
Yet one day, the young marquis abandons fine wine and luxury to enlist in the army. Starting as the lowliest soldier, he gradually becomes General Jiang, a man who can stand on his own.
When someone asks him about it, Jiang Zai, fighting in the muddy waters of the training grounds, wipes the sweat from his brow and says only:
"I can be a wastrel, but she has to be a Lady of the Imperial Household."
Everyone says a prodigal who turns his life around is worth more than gold. But only he knows that after meeting Xie Qingyun, Young Marquis Jiang Zai, courtesy name Wuju, finally found the reins in his heart.
1. A well-bred young lady living under another family's roof vs. a wastrel young marquis who says one thing but means another.
2. Jiang Zai, courtesy name Wuju, pen name Zizai Shanren: the coming-of-age story of a wastrel youth.
Blurb posted on January 5, 2021. Screenshot saved.
Theme: The only way to become better is to keep working hard and growing.
