I accompanied Zhao Du through three arduous years of study in the countryside, where he vowed to marry me with grandeur upon passing the imperial examinations. Yet after attaining the rank of Tanhua Lang (Third Top Scholar), he coldly discarded me with a letter. He declared his intent to wed the daughter of the Duke of Rong's household to secure a prosperous future, dismissing me with a paltry hundred taels of silver. Little does he know—while he saw merely a rare literate village girl, I am in truth the sole legitimate heir of the Duke of Rong's estate, bestowed the title of County Princess Jiajing by the Empress Dowager herself.
