Summary
I was only the daughter of an official, yet fortune had smiled on me: I married into the household of the Marquis of Dingyuan.
My husband was a good-hearted, guileless man who spent most of the year away commanding troops. My mother-in-law, the Princess Royal, might disapprove of my background, but she never went out of her way to torment me.
Then one day, my father-in-law’s widowed cousin arrived at the estate. The aging schemer soon had my mother-in-law sick to her stomach.
So I stepped in.













