A Dowry Maid in the Ming Dynasty

After transmigrating, Tao Xiang became a hereditary servant in the Marquis of Wuqing’s household in the Ming Dynasty. Her grandfather worked as a laborer in the woodshed, her grandmother mended clothes in the sewing room, her father watched the side gate in the back alley, and her mother helped out in the main kitchen. Even with everyone’s monthly wages combined, the family couldn’t scrape together two strings of cash. A look through the family tree told the whole story: they were all hereditary servants! Her mother had gone to great lengths to arrange what she considered an excellent childhood betrothal for Tao Xiang. The prospective groom was a hereditary slave, too. Damn it! Wasn’t that just a female slave paired with a male slave, only to give birth to a whole litter of little slaves? And to make matters worse, this was the Marquis of Wuqing’s household—the very household whose family would soon be wiped out after the Coup of Seizing the Gate. She couldn’t go through with the match. She had to get her name struck from the servant register and escape the coming disaster! Near death, Tao Xiang suddenly sat bolt upright. She climbed out of bed and began planning her career. The eldest young lady was approaching the age for betrothal, and the madam was choosing her dowry attendants. Tao Xiang thought it over: she wasn’t good at cooking; her specialty was accounting, and her strong suit was makeup. But she was too young for anyone to believe she knew how to keep the books. She’d have to try for a position as the young lady’s hairdressing maid instead. #A Little Maid’s Struggle to Gain Her Freedom# — Description from novelcodex.orgFull novel: A Dowry Maid in the Ming Dynasty — read the rest free on N​o⁠v​e⁠l​C⁠o​d⁠e​x⁠.​o⁠r​g⁠