The general’s daughter Li Wanming refused the arranged engagement to the heir of Prince Ning and held her own “catch‑a‑husband” under the list, yet she brought back a penniless, blank‑slate scholar and became the joke of the whole capital. The scholar was poor and frail, and trailing behind him was a bizarre, large family. His father couldn’t tell the five grains apart, panting whenever he swung a hoe. His mother was a sickly beauty; the household was so poor they could barely feed themselves, yet she insisted on drinking a bowl of bird’s nest every day. His paternal uncle had not an ounce of strength, yet claimed he was used to hard labor. His cousin had a peculiar constitution and broke out in rashes if she wore coarse cloth. …… The whole capital was waiting to watch her fall, But unexpectedly—— The frail scholar was masterful in qin, chess, calligraphy, and painting, and even a talent in both civil and military affairs? His father casually showed his face and was on brotherly terms with the Town‑Defending General? His mother, with a single word, could appraise jade, gold, ceramics, and brocade? …… Li Wanming herself couldn’t make sense of it: didn’t she marry a poor scholar? How did she end up running the prince’s residence and even being granted the title of an Imperially Bestowed Madam? The heir of Prince Ning slipped his arm around her waist, smiling warmly: “Wife, the marriage Heaven has given us is simply one‑of‑a‑kind……”