My mother was an illiterate peasant girl, yet she supported my father until he passed the imperial examination. On the day my father was to marry the legitimate daughter of the Prime Minister's household, my mother obediently accepted the position of secondary wife. My father thought her love made her easy to control. The official wife believed a country bumpkin could never rival her. Under their contempt, my mother played the fool to outwit them all, quietly raising me to become someone of supreme nobility. #AncientChina #FemaleProtagonist
