On a summer night, the weather was unbearably stuffy. Mrs. Jin tossed and turned on the bed several times, unable to fall asleep.
The travel expenses for her husband's imperial exam had yet to be settled, and the contract she held tightly in her hand was not yet the time to be used. All of this felt like a mountain pressing on Mrs. Jin's chest.
Thinking about how she had married into the Old Mu Family for so many years without any good fortune and always being ridiculed, now that there was finally a chance for enjoyment before her, she would not give it up for anything.
Mrs. Jin dressed herself, smoothing her hair. She glanced at her husband, Mu Dade, on the bed, and the anxiety in her heart grew stronger.
Now, Mrs. Jin wanted to find a windy place to sort out her thoughts, to quickly come up with a way to gather the money.
