The Golden Gate Locks in Spring Breeze

After her family disaster, living under someone else's roof, a change of dynasties, marriage, and divorce. In just eighteen short years, Yu Zheng experienced things other people might never encounter in an entire lifetime. As a former-dynasty noble lady, all she wanted now was to stay alive. She wanted to enter the palace as a maid, rely on her literacy and education, and someday become a court lady to support herself, and that would be enough.

She never expected that the new dynasty's emperor would show favor to the old ministers of the previous dynasty by sending her to the backyard of the Fourth Prince.

Hah, back then she divorced her former husband because she did not want to be demoted from wife to concubine, and now things were good: this time, there would be no hope of divorce.

The Fourth Prince's backyard was small, but there were plenty of schemers. Outside, the dynasty had changed and everything needed rebuilding; inside, there was plotting and pressing from every side.

Her life had fallen to the bottom already, and if it kept falling, there was nowhere else to go. Since that was the case, from now on she could only rise steadily upward. If heaven wanted her to struggle, how could she fail to live up to fate?