My Lord, Hurry Up and Die! My Widowhood Depends on You!

[Historical Romance + Household Schemes + Face-Slapping the Scum + Married First, Love Later + Two Powerful Leads]

When Su Qingli was little, she entered the palace with her legitimate elder sister and caught the eye of a noblewoman. From then on, her life took a turn for the worse.

Her very existence displeased the mistress of the household and her elder sister. So her sister dumped an unwanted engagement on her, then framed her, drove her out, and hunted her down, all in an attempt to kill her.

Su Qingli survived by the skin of her teeth. Abandoned at an estate to fend for herself for three years, she was reborn from the ashes.

At last, she came of age. She thought she could fulfill the engagement and escape the Marquis's household, but her elder sister took the engagement back.

Her sister wanted to take her place in the palace, but was unwilling to give up the power of her childhood sweetheart.

Things did not go as she wished. Her sister's plans fell apart, and the emperor had never forgotten Su Qingli.

Su Qingli had no desire to enter the palace. All she wanted was to leave the Marquis's household, but her status and the conventions of society kept her trapped.

She had placed her hopes in her childhood sweetheart's promise, only to be betrayed and deceived, and even have her business assets targeted.

She was clever and perceptive, always yielding and holding back, yet they kept pushing her further and further.

Faced with her sister's schemes to take everything from her, her childhood sweetheart's betrayal, and her birth mother's indifference, her heart turned cold.

Parental commands and matchmakers' words were nothing but a way to bully her for being weak. Only the strong had the right to decide their own fate.

She stopped hiding her talents, dazzling everyone before their eyes and swearing she would no longer be bound by convention.

But an imperial edict trapped her once more in the inner chambers. How could she break free?

The emperor told her she was marrying a dying man. She thought she could become a widow in all but name, but he turned out to be a ravenous wolf she could never satisfy.

How could she possibly endure it? She faked her death, fled with the money, and ended up pregnant. Her carefree days were over.

One day, unable to bear the pain of missing her, a certain someone decided to follow her, only for his subordinate to reveal a shocking secret.

The princess consort isn't dead, and she's about to give birth?

Had his life suddenly become complete?