The Thorn Poem Shattered in His Arms

When Su Yubei took this girl in, he thought he’d only picked up a clumsy nuisance. Times are hard now, business is sluggish, the banknotes in the drawer are so thin you can see the bottom, and he can barely afford to keep a servant anymore. Yet this maid, Suisui, somehow sensed something, stubbornly slipped her wages back, and even had the nerve to take a nighttime “side job.” He once thought she was just simple and foolish — he never expected her foolishness would squeeze his heart so tight.