Three Joys

In this world, people are divided into three kinds. The chang ren are just ordinary people. At the top are the xie, born with pure Yang bodies and seen as the most powerful. Then there are the kao—people with Yin bodies who can give birth regardless of their gender. They are rare, which makes them highly sought after by noble families. When a xie and a kao come together, they bond for life and produce heir that is legacy of the their entire family. *** Sanxi grew up neglected by the Shen family. As the son of a low-ranked concubine and a chang ren, he was treated more like a servant than a son. His fifth sister, however, was a kao already promised to marry two xie sons from one of the capital’s most powerful clans—the Xu family. But when his sister mysteriously passes away, Sanxi is sent to the capital. There, he learns the truth about himself: he is also a kao. Now, he must take his sister’s place and become the shared kao wife of two illegitimate xie sons from the Xu family, along with their eldest legitimate son, a chang ren. Amidst this journey, echoes of a mystic past linger. The fortune teller, stroking his beard, looked at me with a knowing gaze and uttered, “Child, your destiny is unusual. In your past life, you owed three people. In this life, whether it’s good or bad, it’s all closely tied to these three people.” In a world where fates entwine like delicate threads, can Shen Jingting navigate the intricacies of love woven into the fates of three mysterious souls? Will they guide him toward the embrace of happiness, or will they entwine him in the shadows of sadness?