The Marquis's Beloved Is a Black-Hearted Flower

Ye Chutang, heir to a family of traditional Chinese medicine practitioners, spent her whole life working herself to the bone. Just as she was about to take over the family business, she died unexpectedly. Given a new life, she just wants to be a laid-back slacker and take it easy forever. But from the start, disaster strikes. Her parents and eldest brother are murdered, leaving her with three younger siblings. Her third younger brother is badly injured, her fourth is unconscious, and a baby is wailing for food. She weighs the cold, hard cornmeal bun in her hand and looks up at the sky in despair. Raising three kids alone, with a hand this bad, she might as well start over. The littlest one tugs at her pant leg. “Hungry.” Ye Chutang: “...” Get up and get to work! Ye Chutang’s plan is perfect: raise the kids, then retire and enjoy her old age. But a certain man refuses to let her have her way. “Second Miss Ye, you’ve wasted so many years of my life. You owe me an explanation.” Ye Chutang: “Seriously?” You were the one who camped outside my house and refused to leave, and now you’re blaming me? The Ye family is remarkable. The third son is the top scholar in the imperial examinations, the fourth son has earned great military honors and made a name for himself in the northwest, and the fifth daughter has built a business empire across the land and become fabulously wealthy. Only the Ye family’s second daughter is so busy raising her younger siblings that the years slip by, and finding a husband becomes a worry. Until one day, Marquis Dingbei Shen Yanchuan arrives with an extravagant bridal procession stretching for miles. Ye Chutang falls silent for a long time. “This time, you’re taking the kids.”