The low-born Jiangnan embroideress Shen Linyi had supported a scholar who won the tanhua (third place) in the imperial exams.　 On the day people from the capital came to deliver the good news,　 the neighbors all praised her keen eye, saying she had chosen well and would soon be fetched to the capital to become the tanhua’s wife.　 But the carriage that carried her instead brought her to a nunnery.　 It turned out the scholar only wanted her as an anonymous, statusless concubine.　 "You’re nothing but a low-born embroideress, and you want to be my lawful wife?"　 "If you obediently give me a son and serve my mother well, after I marry into a noble family and secure my position I might make you a concubine. Otherwise, wait to be trapped here for the rest of your life!"　 What the scholar didn’t know was that he wasn’t the only person Shen Linyi had helped.　 Shen Linyi’s journey to the capital wasn’t because of him either.　 The next day, Shen Linyi, clutching a token, knocked on the Dingguo Marquis’s mansion door: "I heard your young marquis is looking for a woman?"