Chinese Traditional Story: Eighteen Years in a Cave Dwelling

In the Tang Dynasty, Prime Minister Wang Yun had a daughter named Wang Baochuan. Wang Baochuan was a very beautiful girl and was of age to be married. Her parents were very anxious, so they went to consult a fortune teller. The fortune teller told them that she had a noble fate and that her status could even surpass her mother. Upon hearing this, Wang Yun and his wife were elated. Wang Yun thought: "I am a prime minister. In order for my daughter to surpass the status of her mother, then my daughter would have to become either a concubine or queen?" So, from then on, the parents had great expectations for her marriage. Not long after, Wang Yun decided to let his daughter select her bridegroom by the ceremonial tossing of the embroidery ball; in ancient China,....