The Lowborn Daughter Marries Up

Her maternal grandfather is a high-ranking official of the second rank, and she was born into the Prime Minister's household. Raised by her maternal grandmother from childhood, she has always been surrounded by an aura of privilege. Yet when all is said and done, she is still just the daughter of a concubine who was once a favored concubine.

Her primary mother is kind on the surface but vicious in secret. Her selfish birth mother, desperate to win a word of praise from her father, even helps the primary mother frame her. Shen Yinqiu smiles faintly. No matter what traps others lay or schemes they devise, she will simply keep to her place as a concubine-born daughter. Surely she won't end up as meat on their chopping block.

Open attacks are easy to dodge, but hidden arrows are hard to guard against. The marriage arranged by her maternal grandmother is snatched away by her sisters at the primary mother's urging, making her a laughingstock in the household. Hoping to spend more time with her father, her birth mother even joins forces with the primary mother to marry her off as the second wife of a marquis who has been gravely ill since his beloved wife died. Fortunately, she takes it in stride. She figures she can live there for a year or two, then spend the rest of her life a widow. At least it would be a quiet life. She never expected this marriage to turn her peaceful life upside down.