The Farmer's Concubine Is a Beauty

Lin Shu considers herself the boldest and freest woman in the Great Qi. To escape a fate as the landlord's eldest son's fourth concubine, she takes her younger brother, climbs into a carriage, and follows some distant uncle she barely knows, a third-rank official appointed by the imperial court, to the capital. The Lin residence in the capital is a sprawling maze of courtyards. There, Lin Shu encounters all kinds of oddballs and gets caught up in one headache after another. Among them is a young gentleman surnamed Huang. She knows his surname, but not his given name. This noble young master acts one way in public and another in private. He once spent a gold ingot to get Lin Shu out of trouble, then insisted afterward that she owed him the position of fourth concubine...