Historical romance with domestic schemes, palace intrigue, power struggles, revenge, and dual rebirth.
Not a conventional rebirth story: the male lead knows what the future holds. The female lead died young in her previous life, so she has no foresight after being reborn, but she is clever enough.
Shen Qing, eldest daughter of the wealthiest family in the Jing Dynasty, was granted an imperial marriage at sixteen and wed to Prince Duan, Jing Cheng. Yet barely two months into their marriage, he secretly took three concubines.
Outsiders called Shen Qing the Jing Dynasty’s model princess consort and a role model for all women in the household. Only she knew that she diligently played the part of the perfect princess consort every day, all the while planning to get her revenge on that bastard Jing Cheng and then walk away. But before she could finish the job, she mysteriously died in a pond at Prince Duan’s residence.
Reborn, Shen Qing thought it over and decided that staying alive mattered most. Whoever wanted to be the model princess consort could take the job. She was done with it.
Shen Qing had thought that in her previous life she had simply been betrayed by a scoundrel, but she never imagined her death was part of a vast conspiracy. The entire Shen family had been nothing but pawns in someone else’s game, and once they were no longer useful, they were crushed to dust.
As the secrets buried in her past life slowly came to light, Shen Qing, who had only wanted to lie flat, found herself consumed by hatred.
“To live is to drift; to die is to rest.”
“If life is unjust, then I’ll stake my life to make it right. Shen Qing, I live only to protect you and keep you safe for the rest of your life.”
The heroine is a born actress. She seems gentle and kind, and everyone praises her, but inside she never forgives a slight and is exceptionally good at reading people.
Super beautiful! 😳 Can't wait!
It's a great read. You can tell the author intends to write a long novel. There are so many mysteries. I'm really curious about what happened in their past lives. It feels like the male and female leads knew each other in their past lives, so why doesn't the female lead remember? Did she lose a lot of her memories from her past life? Also, Xu and Lin's relationship has a story, and it has a tragic ending.