Summary
After my mother died, a noblewoman arrived from the capital.
She wanted to take in my older sister and me: one as her adopted daughter, the other as her daughter-in-law.
My sister hurried to choose the first.
“A woman of her standing, choosing a bride from the likes of us? Her son must have some hidden affliction.”
Then Xie Yan appeared, and she bitterly regretted her choice.
But I never won his favor, either.
He resented the arrangement and decided I was a social climber, nothing like my noble-minded sister.
For three years, I tried to please him. He never met me with anything but a cold face.
At last, I went to his mother and begged.
She could not bear to watch me suffer any longer.
“In that case, for the wedding in half a month…”
“Let your sister take your place as the bride.”











