The Portrait That Set Her Free

When the portrait artist paints you ugly on purpose, your arranged fiance falls for it - and for your dowry. But this heroine doesn't cry. She doesn't fight. She simply steps aside, returns the jade pendant, and lets her scheming sister have the man. Her grandmother in Yangzhou has other plans. A mysterious young man from the Duke Ningguo household keeps showing up with roast goose and ledger help. And when the suitor who rejected her for thirty thousand taels finally comes crawling back, she's already gone. This is the story of a woman who knew her own worth before anyone else did.