The Fu family, famed for its generations of scholars, was best known not for its honorary title of Grand Preceptor to the Crown Prince or its top-scoring scholars, but for the three chastity arches at its gates.
The Fu family's Ninth Miss, Fu Tingyun, was praised as blessed with both good fortune and wisdom. She never imagined her cousin would boldly claim they had been lovers, driving her almost to the end of her tether...
A loss in the east may be a gain in the west. As it turned out, as long as she kept living with strength, she could blossom like a flower amid the clamor of the mortal world and enjoy a life of splendor at every turn.
