Episode 1: Luo Yining returns home to celebrate her grandmother’s birthday

Luo Yining, the daughter of the Luo family, has finally come of age. She received the news of her grandmother’s 60th birthday and rushed here from the other courtyard. On the way, the maid asked Luo Yining if she should live there permanently this time. After all, she is the legitimate daughter of the Luo family and should not always live in the other courtyard.

However, Luo Yining, who has been accustomed to freedom since childhood, does not like staying in the main courtyard. Since she can remember, she has been bullied by her mother. Her mother has just passed away, so she instigated Luo Yining’s father to turn the mistress’s courtyard into a large pond.

At that time, the young Luo Yining was lying on a tree. She saw many people moving things out of her mother’s house. She immediately tried to stop them. This yard was the only thing her mother left her. But her mother refused to give up.

To prevent Luo Yining from ruining her plan, she had a miscarriage and aborted the fetus in the mansion. She also framed Luo Yining for the incident, saying that she had harmed the fetus in her belly. Her father was furious and immediately questioned Luo Yining whether she was wrong or not, and then drove her to live in another courtyard.

Luo Yining’s grandmother also made this decision. She knew that this young woman was not easy to deal with. In order to protect the safety of young Luo Yining, she had no choice but to make the decision to keep Luo Yining away from the young woman. This day was not only the grandmother’s 60th birthday, but also the day when the marriage arranged by the Jiang and Luo families was fulfilled.

Grandmother specifically called Luo Yining’s father over and asked him how to arrange the wedding today. However, Luo Yining’s father wanted to marry Yi Lian, born to Xiao Niang, to the Jiang family. Grandmother got angry.

After all, Luo Yining was the legitimate daughter, and Luo Yining should be married first. However, Xiao Niang’s foxy woman often whispered in his ear, and Luo Yining’s father had made up his mind to favor Xiao Niang.

When she first arrived at the Luo family, Luo Yining was turned away by the servants, who did not know that there was a legitimate daughter, the Seventh Lady, in the mansion. Luo Yining did not blame them, but waited patiently for a few minutes. The housekeeper came and immediately welcomed Luo Yining into the house.

The Jiang family came to celebrate the old man’s birthday, not to propose marriage, but to cancel the engagement. When the grandmother heard the Jiang family’s refusal, her face was unhappy. The women were chatting about family matters when they heard the housekeeper announce, “The seventh girl is here!”

Everyone looked in the direction of the voice and was immediately dazzled by the sight of Luo Yining, who was graceful and elegant, pure and innocent, like a lotus flower just out of water, noble and unworldly.

Luo Yining asked someone to bring out the birthday gift she gave to her grandmother, a huge paper-cut she made by herself, forming a picture of “Magu Offering Longevity”, which had a good and auspicious meaning.

Everyone praised Luo Yining’s dexterity, even her grandmother nodded repeatedly. After a while, Luo Yining’s father came. Luo Yining also presented a gift that she had carefully prepared for her father. She collected the precious calligraphy and paintings left by her grandfather and framed them in a certain order. The gift was just right.

At night, several children were holding firecrackers and setting off fireworks. A maid sneaked out a firework from her sleeve and put it on a tray to Luo Yining. This scene happened to be seen by Luo Shenyuan.

Luo Shenyuan saw the maid was about to give the firework to Luo Yining. Because Luo Yining and Luo Shenyuan had met once during the day, he quietly walked over and told her to be careful with the fireworks.

Luo Yining nodded in thanks, and walked to the middle of the sisters, happily watching the fireworks blooming in the sky. Yi Lian saw the fireworks in Luo Yining’s hand and immediately took them over. As soon as she lit them, she found that the fireworks were so hot that sparks flew everywhere.

She immediately threw them away, and they landed at the feet of Madam Jiang. Madam Jiang was frightened, but fortunately Luo Yining was quick-witted and ran over to stomp out the fireworks, thus calming down the farce.

Madam Jiang left the Luo Mansion angrily. Luo Yining’s father began to blame many children and scolded Luo Shenyuan for rashly leaving the hospital when he should have been under house arrest. Luo Yining wanted to persuade him, but was implicated and punished to kneel in the ancestral hall for a night.