
Yu Youniang only discovered at the age of five that her mother was actually the true daughter of the Yong'an Marquis Estate, who had been separated from them for over twenty years.
The day they returned to the Marquis Estate, the Marchioness tearfully embraced the fake daughter, putting on a show of mother-daughter affection. Youniang, munching on a candied hawthorn skewer, innocently asked, "Grandmother, my mother was separated for over twenty years, and this auntie was the Young Miss of the Marquis Estate for over twenty years. Why is she crying?"
She continued, "Is it because she sees my mother has found her birth mother, but she couldn't return to her own birth mother, so she feels sad?" The two who had just been embracing and crying instantly looked embarrassed.
Everyone in the Yong'an Marquis Estate believed Yu Youniang and her mother were country bumpkins from a poor village, despising and looking down on them in every way. Her classmates mocked her for not understanding zither and chess, yet the Prime Minister's legitimate grandson vied to be her pageboy.
An elder from Medicine King Valley knelt on the spot, "Greetings, Junior Martial Uncle, please bestow medicine!" The old marshal of the Zhenbei Army even doted on her, calling her his precious granddaughter, bribing her with a tiger tally to ride big horses.
Furthermore, the Crown Prince, whose health had been constantly fluctuating, found his body improving day by day after being near Yu Youniang. On the day they severed ties, Youniang, jingling the golden abacus of the Jiuzhou Business Guild, sweetly declared, "The Marquis Estate's food is too terrible! Ningning isn't playing anymore!"
Following closely behind her was a vast procession of suitors' carriages. The Crown Prince wished he could empty the national treasury to propose marriage, asking, "Ningning, are you satisfied with the betrothal gifts?"