No Longer a Bought Bride

About No Longer a Bought Bride

Sold to a prestigious noble household for the mere price of a single ox, Xiao Yi spent ten Bound to a noble estate since youth for the humble price of a single ox, Xiao Yi spent a full decade playing the obedient, sheltered ward under Ji Shu’s doting care, but everything fractures the night an unbroken promise shatters her gilded cage. On her seventeenth birthday, while the rest of the town celebrates an opulent high-society wedding, Xiao Yi quietly prepares two simple bowls of longevity noodles in the quiet courtyard. When Ji Shu finally returns with exhaustion and mounting guilt plain across his face, she does not cry, rage, or beg for affection. Instead, she offers a knowing, tranquil smile. The manor may have purchased her past for mere silver, but they cannot keep her future. Returning that exact sum down to the last coin, Xiao Yi steps away from domestic subservience and the suffocating walls that held her captive for ten long years. This is not a bitter quest for vengeance; it is a fierce personal awakening. Setting her sights on the vast frontier beyond aristocratic estates, an unstoppable heroine reclaims her autonomy, defies archaic feudal traditions, and proudly writes her own destiny.