Marrying into a Noble Family

Lu Lin was the son of a minister, a man of striking beauty, as elegant as jade and as graceful as a flowering branch. He should have had a blissful marriage, but at the age of twenty, a village girl came knocking on his door with a token. Only then did Lu Lin’s grandfather remember that he had once arranged a marriage for his grandson. Following his grandfather’s instructions, Lu Lin married the village girl. Naturally, he did not like her—in fact, he despised her. For three years as husband and wife, there was no affection between them. He had thought that she, having schemed so hard to attain her current wealth and status, would never let go. Yet, when he told her he wished to take his ...