Her fiancé broke off their engagement, and her parents wanted to marry her off as an old man’s concubine.
After foiling her stepmother’s scheme, Wei Shuxia set her sights on Huan Xin.
The most powerful official in Jianye was the perfect man to shelter her.
But not this quickly, okay? Hey!
Through a twist of fate, they spent one passionate night together. The emperor then granted them a marriage, leaving them a couple in name only.
A timid orphan girl married to a domineering powerbroker: everyone in Jianye wanted to see Wei Shuxia become a laughingstock. But in the end, Huan Xin treated her like a queen.
Only...
After being married, why were they both so different from the people they’d seemed to be at the start?
Bonus scene:
A cruel stepmother? A bullying noblewoman? Not enough money to get by?
Huan Xin returned from the northern campaign with the complaint letter Wei Shuxia had written.
He glanced at Wei Shuxia in the residence, laughing over tea with the noblewomen, at his impoverished mother-in-law who had come to complain to him, and at the general’s residence, glittering with gold and renovated from top to bottom.
His eyelid twitched violently.
