unrequited-love

When she arrived at the Rongguo Mansion, Xue Baoqin was an astounding beauty with a bright mind, but with an aura of melancholy shrouding her. She was the granddaughter of Jia Yuan, the younger brother to Jia She and Jia Zheng. As the neglected daughter of the disgraced Xue family, she lived her life in obscurity before the Rongguo Mansion took her in.

The corridors of Darlington Hall grew quiet, resonating only with the faint echoes of its glorious past. Stevens, the ageing butler, polished the silverware with an age-old diligence, the reflection in the polished metal stirring memories long buried within him.