Summary
Mother played favorites.
She would often say that, being her second daughter and fair of face, I might well be spoiled a little.
Yet Elder Sister, as the eldest daughter, was held to strict account by her.
Elder Sister resented me for it.
Under my name, she exchanged letters with the most celebrated young gentleman in the capital, and moved him to come and ask for my hand.
Only after we wed did Xie Changyu learn that I was dull and shallow, and not the one his heart had sought.
Elder Sister wept like pear blossoms in the rain.
“Our mother is partial; she pressed me to secure a good match for my sister, and I had no choice but to…”
Xie Changyu hated me for half a lifetime.
To his dying day he believed I had substituted myself for her and latched onto him on purpose.
I was reborn on the very day the Xies came to propose.
I shook my head.
“I do not know Young Master Xie.”


