A Cup of Spring

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Blurb One:

Wei Wanyan died on her twentieth birthday.

In her previous life, she was the legitimate daughter of the Minister of Rites and married beneath her station into the scholarly Lin family of Jiangnan. Who could have guessed that the Minister's household would be implicated in an imperial examination fraud case and fall into ruin overnight?

The disaster should not have affected married daughters, but she defied her husband's family and went to the capital alone to seek justice. To win back their good name, she held aloft an edict from the late emperor and knelt outside the palace gates for days.

But the edict had already been issued, and treacherous officials held power. The men of her family were executed, while the women were forced into prostitution.

Because of this, her husband, with whom she had always been courteous and respectful, locked her away in a cramped room. In the end, he sent her to her death with a cup of poison.

After she died, she was fortunate enough to be reborn, returning to the day she went to the capital to plead her family's case. Her parents and brothers were dead, but her younger sister was still alive. She would save her from that prison, and clear the Wei family's name.

She opened eateries and taverns, and moved among nobles and the powerful. She wrote storybooks and opened a publishing house, earning a fine reputation among scholars across the land. She would use their influence to overturn the Wei family's case, and climb higher step by step, over the corpses of her enemies.

Who says women are inferior to men? This time, there would be no Miss Wei or Madam Lin. There would only be Madam Wei, who would soon make a name for herself in the capital's business world.

Blurb Two:

Everyone says that His Highness the Crown Prince is noble and reserved, gentle and refined, and that he and the Crown Princess treat each other with mutual respect and live in harmony. Although he is not the Empress's biological son, their bond is deep.

One day, a palace servant in the Crown Prince's residence knocked over his beloved glass lantern. He merely smiled and had someone clean up the shards, without scolding them.

Who could have imagined that the supposedly dignified Crown Prince would smash down Madam Wei's door because he couldn't get inside late at night, making the whole capital gossip about his romantic affair with her the next day?

1. Not both leads' first relationship. Read with caution.

2. A cool beauty who works hard to stand on her own VS a scheming, career-minded man who dotes on his wife

3. The heroine may use the hero at times, but trust me, she doesn't mean to! The hero is practically built to be her assistant, and he's just too useful.

4. The hero isn't a good person in the traditional sense. He isn't a good person, he isn't a good person... (repeat a hundred times)

Blurb written on 2021.7.21

A quiet note: I'm terrible at writing blurbs, so please bear with me. I may revise it later.

Theme: Women should strive to be independent.