A Radiant Spring Day

[New Novel: A Basket of Gold, Please Add to Your Collection] The founding Marquis's household brought their second daughter back from the home of the maternal uncle who had been raising her. Everyone said the second young lady was born with celestial beauty and graceful bearing, her poise serene and elegant. Truly a daughter of a distinguished family, she upheld its fine reputation wherever she went. Two months after returning home, Xuanyan was diagnosed as pregnant. The founding Marquis's household was suddenly beset by an impending storm. Her father and mother did everything they could to conceal the disgrace, letting no outsiders catch so much as a glimpse of what was happening inside their walls. Everyone in the household, from top to bottom, pointed fingers at Xuanyan and treated her with utter contempt. They demanded to know who the man was and threatened to abort her child. She bit her lip and said not a word. * In the seventeenth year of the Xuanjing era, Ning Ke claimed illness and recuperated at the Marquis's secluded estate in Luoyang. That reckless young woman came knocking on his door of her own accord. Abused by her maternal family, she was willing to bend her slender waist and bow her graceful neck for a meager five dou of rice. Her little hand trembling, she reached for his belt of her own accord. Reunited in Chang'an In public, she was the dignified and graceful legitimate daughter of a marquis's household. In private, she was the woman in his bed whose charms he could never resist. Jiang Wanfu stormed into her elder sister's courtyard with four or five matrons, full of arrogance and intent on aborting the child in her womb. She immediately cursed her as shameless, saying she had brought disgrace upon the marquis's household. The long, elegant silhouette of a man appeared against the green gauze window of the bedchamber. He pushed the window open, one hand locked around Xuanyan's slender waist, his stern gaze sweeping over them.