A Second Marriage to a High Minister

Zhong Yi, a daughter born to a concubine, obeyed her family's arrangements. Her father decided her marriage, and she wed Jiang Yanchu, the legitimate eldest son of the Duke of Rong's household, who had been her childhood sweetheart.

On their wedding night, however, Zhong Yi was left out in the cold. The very next day, her husband Jiang Yanchu left to garrison the southern frontier.

They were separated, and three years passed before they met again.

Still so young, she was left a wife in name only.

For three years, she rarely left her home. She managed the household and served her parents-in-law without a single mistake or instance of neglect.

Then, in the blink of an eye, her husband Jiang Yanchu returned. But he brought back not only a concubine, but also a young boy whose features, from his brows to the corners of his eyes, bore a striking resemblance to him.

And then...

The mother and son began to sing the same tune in the hall.

Zhong Yi's gaze turned cold, and the corners of her lips curled into a faint, icy smile.

Han Xuanhui, the legitimate second son of the Grand Secretariat's chief minister, was often called the “Young Grand Secretary” by the court officials.

Young, handsome, and taciturn, he had earned the emperor's deep trust.

He had been sent to serve as governor in South Zhili for three years. The emperor once declared that he was South Zhili's pillar of strength, and ordered him not to return to the capital without a summons.

He never once disobeyed, and did not leave South Zhili for so much as a step in those three years.

Later, however, a sudden illness in his leg forced him to return to the capital.

As it happened, just days after his return, a strange upheaval struck the Grand Secretariat's residence...

A clever, reserved, and patient heroine versus a cold, taciturn, unscrupulous hero. (Both are each other's one and only.)