However, matters of fate truly seem to be predestined by the heavens.
Well-versed in both Chinese and Western studies, the unrivaled handsome Xing Yuanzheng found his match in the graceful and quiet Shen Yaru, and from that moment, his feelings for her far surpassed those he had for Shen Yaxuan.
The Shen Family elders had no parents or sisters above them, leaving behind only these two daughters. When Shen Yaxuan was 16, their parents died in an accident. In their last words, they left their daughters in the care of the Xing Family, once again proposing a marriage alliance without specifying which daughter—but as a dowry, they offered the entire wealth of the Shen Family.
Actually, the matter had been decided at that time.
From then on, the 19-year-old Shen Yaru, along with her younger sister, came to live in the Xing Family's old house—the one we are in now—and the Xing Family elders treated them as their own.