With his knowledge of a future era, Li Chen understood all too well that there was no such thing as free love in this age. A life was governed by the will of one’s parents and the words of a matchmaker. For a woman, the only choice was to wait for a proposal to arrive at her door.
For women, it was an inescapable fate.
Daughters of noble houses, of course, were little more than tools for furthering family interests through marriage. The
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