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盛家的长女盛宁，是那一科写在榜首的名字。盛家的嫡女盛瑶，是被整个家族护在中间、也被整个家族标好价钱的人。Sheng Ning, eldest daughter of the Sheng house, is the name written at the top of that year's imperial examination. Sheng Yao, the legitimate daughter, is the one the whole clan keeps at its centre — and the one the whole clan has already priced.

一个在朝堂上撑着盛家的门面，一个在后宅里扛着盛家的体面。外人只看见姐妹情深，只有她们自己知道，这份护持早就越过了名分该有的分寸。One holds up the family's face at court; one carries its dignity inside the walls. Outsiders see only devotion between sisters. Only the two of them know that this protection long ago crossed the line that status allows.

盛宁替她挡下来的每一次说亲，盛瑶替她瞒下来的每一次夜归，都是不必说破的应答。至情不必轰烈，至理也未必冰冷——她们只是把"护着一个人"这件事，做到了底。Every match Sheng Ning turned away on her behalf, every late return Sheng Yao covered for her, was an answer that never needed to be spoken. Deep feeling need not be dramatic, and reason need not be cold — they simply took "protecting one person" and saw it through to the end.