My younger sister's gold-and-jade collar, bestowed by the emperor, went missing. My stepmother led a group of maids and matrons into my courtyard and searched it, finding a stack of banned books. The Marquis of Zhenyuan household broke off my engagement, and my father was so furious that he dumped me at a country estate to fend for myself. I wrote to my former fiancé for help, but he sent back just one sentence: “Stop pestering me.” At the end of my rope, I was rescued by Gu Zheng, my former fiancé's sworn enemy.
