Springtime Romance in a Noble Household

When Qing Yuan was eight, her koi-fish destiny got her sold into the Marquis of Zhenguo's household to bring good fortune. She became Chu Jingyu's child bride, drawing blood from her heart every day as medicine for him and caring for him with all her heart.

Ten years later, Chu Jingyu is healthy. When someone asks about Qing Yuan, he simply says, "If your family needs someone to bring good fortune, you can buy her back."

Then, on the day she is kidnapped, message after message arrives from the kidnappers, but he is too busy boating with the woman he loves to care. Irritated, he says, "Tell her to wait."

At last, Qing Yuan learns who the woman he loves is: his elder brother's fiancée. To him, Qing Yuan is only a bird he keeps in a cage, because she knows her place and never makes trouble.

Qing Yuan does exactly that: she doesn't make trouble, and even leaves without a word when she finally buys her freedom.

Chu Jingyu doesn't know that, to raise the money to free herself, Qing Yuan took a job bearing an heir for a condemned prisoner, who happens to be his elder brother.

Later, on the day Chu Jingyu is to be married, Qing Yuan becomes famous throughout the land for her embroidery. He flees the wedding like a madman to find her, his eyes red as he begs, "So the person I should have loved from the beginning was you. A Yuan, please, won't you look at me?"

The famously aloof and celibate Marquis of Zhenguo kicks him to his knees and says coldly, "That's no way to speak to your sister-in-law."