The Spoiled Daughter of the Concubine

[Everyday Household Scheming x Marriage First, Love Later]

Yinyin knows she is the daughter of a concubine, low in status, and has no choice but to rein in her true nature and behave by the rules in the household.

She is a dutiful granddaughter who serves and pleases her elders, pouring tea, fetching water, and keeping them company; a natural foil who gets along with her brothers and yields to her sisters; and a well-bred young lady who excels at music, chess, calligraphy, and painting, bringing honor to her family.

But every day of the year, she is battered by harsh winds and icy frost.

When her family falls overnight, she becomes a pawn in a political marriage. At last, when her grandmother sends her to become a certain general's concubine, she finally sees the light and flips the table. "I'm done pretending!"

He is the pampered eldest son of a duke's mansion. When his family fell into decline, he shouldered its burdens at just fifteen. A master of both letters and war, he stirred up a storm in the struggle for the throne, rising with the tide, yet fate was against his family: neither of his first two wives met a happy end.

Facing this girl ten years his junior, he sneered, "Aren't you afraid to die? Are you really going to wade into the mess that is my household?"