Marrying into a Marquis's Household

Her grandfather was a Grand Secretary of the Cabinet, and her father was a rising star at court. With the support of the century-old Mu family, Mu Yunshuang should have had a marriage everyone envied and a smooth, happy life.

But a child without a mother might as well have no father, either.

Her stepmother was cruel and, without her consent, secretly betrothed her to the Lian family of Xiangyang Marquis's household.

That was the family headed by Lian Chengxu, a bachelor of thirty who was raising a child on his own.

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Lian Chengxu was handsome, steady, and mature. At a young age, he had become head of the Lian family, making him one of the most prominent figures in all of Bianjing.

A man of such exceptional talent, with a noble title to his name, should have had no shortage of noblewomen eager to marry him. In theory, there ought to have been at least eighty or a hundred. The reality, however, was quite different.

Lian Chengxu had remained unmarried until nearly thirty, unable to find a suitable mistress of the household.

There was no other reason. The marquises of lesser houses were beneath his notice, while he himself had little interest in noblewomen who were not both beautiful and gentle. There were very few who possessed both qualities. Most importantly, there was a boy by Lian Chengxu's side whom he had doted on since childhood.

Some said the boy was the son of Lian Chengxu's beloved concubine. Others said he was the posthumous child of Lian Chengxu's own elder brother. Still others claimed he was the illegitimate younger brother his lecherous father had left him in his old age. Lian Chengxu cherished the child so dearly that perhaps he intended to pass his title on to him.

In short, there were all kinds of rumors. Over time, Lian Chengxu's reputation was ruined, and the respectable old families no longer dared marry their daughters into his household. So he remained unmarried to this day.

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If Mu Yunshuang had known that the flower-viewing banquet that day was actually a matchmaking party, she never would have gone.

At the height of spring, beneath the apricot blossoms, a handsome, strapping man looked at her from across the flower pavilion, nodded in greeting, and smiled faintly.

Three months later, she was wearing a phoenix crown and red wedding robes, with a lavish bridal procession stretching ten miles behind her, and somehow found herself married into the Lian family.

The troublesome kid is not the male lead. Sweet and spoiled young lady x man who mothers everyone

Size difference, age gap, thirteen-year age difference

Everyday life, family matters.

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