I Was Supposed to Be a Bedchamber Maid, So Why Is My Husband Draping a Phoenix Robe over Me?

Xue Tang, who has lost her memories, has always believed what the slave trader told her about her origins: she is the daughter of a once-wealthy merchant family, fallen on hard times, and her family had no choice but to sell her into the marquis's household. So what if she becomes the bedchamber maid of the mute Second Master Pei? You make your own good life, and she refuses to give up on herself. Through night after night together, she is clever and cautious, carefully feeling out the situation, and manages to live a decent life. That is, until the daughter of the chancellor marries into the marquis's household and makes a point of bullying and humiliating her. Xue Tang has no idea how she offended the woman. With their difference in status, all she can do is swallow her anger. Then one day, a vivid dream finally brings back her memories. The future mistress of the marquis's household is the true daughter whose place Xue Tang occupied for more than a decade. And Xue Tang is the fake daughter the other woman calls "the ungrateful wretch who killed Grandmother and deserves to freeze to death in the street." Everyone waits to see how the true daughter and mistress of the household will humiliate and torment Xue Tang. But as they wait, all they see is... Second Master Pei, rumored to be violent and cold-hearted, cured of his muteness, taking Xue Tang's hand in front of everyone and placing the phoenix seal in it himself. Dressed in a magnificent phoenix robe, Xue Tang stands beside the emperor, coldly watching the members of the chancellor's family who once cast her aside like a rag. Now they regret it beyond measure and kneel, begging her to return. "Xue Tang, please. Won't you come back to your mother?"