Shu Ran
The Marchioness of Grace was only in her thirties. Although she, too, was a widow, she was a perfectly respectable widow who observed all the rules of propriety.
Could there be something about her that they did not know?
Song Yaoyao: [What happened? Hurry up and tell me.]
Guagua: [The Marchioness of Grace was named Shu Ran. She was the legitimate daughter of the Shu Family, imperial merchants of the Heavenly Phoenix Kingdom.
The Shu Family's businesses spanned three kingdoms. They had no shortage of money.
Shu Father was the current head of the Shu Family. He had bought himself a minor seventh-rank official post through a donation, but it was merely a sinecure.
Aside from Shu Father, no one in the Shu Family held office at court.
Shu Father found this deeply regrettable!
He wanted his legitimate daughter, Shu Ran, to marry into a prestigious household, allowing the Shu Family to establish ties with the nobility in the capital.
For this very reason, when Shu Ran reached marriageable age, Shu Father turned away many suitors who came seeking her hand, until Chu Linfeng, the Marquis of Grace, came to propose.
Shu Father did not reject him outright. Afterward, he sent people to inquire into the circumstances of the Marquis of Grace's Residence.
By Chu Linfeng's generation, the title of Marquis of Grace had already fallen into decline. The Marquis's Residence had little influence and no money.
Having no money was no problem. The Shu Family had money to spare.
Shu Father also learned that Chu Linfeng's bedchamber was free of other women-he did not even have a bedchamber maid. So Shu Father agreed to the marriage.]
Song Yaoyao: [Didn't Shu Father ask Shu Ran what she thought?]
Guagua: [*He did. Shu Ran even found an opportunity to