(Gentle, sweet-on-the-outside, dark-on-the-inside noblewoman × unhinged cross-dressing tycoon) (Second male lead’s road to winning her back + uncle and sister-in-law + male interloper takes the top spot + one-on-one, devoted couple + male lead is troubled)
She spends her wedding night alone, waits for three years, and gets only her husband, Cheng Yunshuo, returning home with his “true love” and publicly handing her a document making her a concubine. She becomes the laughingstock of the entire city.
Everyone waits to see Su Xinyao meet a miserable end.
Instead, she smiles.
She doesn’t demand a divorce or make a scene. She personally welcomes his frail, helpless “concubine” into her own courtyard and pampers her at every turn.
No one knows that this seemingly gentle “concubine” will throw her onto the bed right in front of Cheng Yunshuo, eyes dark and damp, hands boldly roaming. “Sister, do you want to... destroy this marquis’s residence?”
And no one suspects that she personally handed over the evidence that brought down the Cheng family, or that the new emperor marching on the capital is an unhinged man she raised herself.
After Cheng Yunshuo’s coup fails and he is trapped like a beast in a cage, he can only watch as the wife he once cast aside like trash, her belly beginning to round, is carefully helped onto the throne by the new emperor. And the “true love” he treasured turns out to be that ruthless, bloodthirsty new emperor!
Only then does he finally understand:
What a priceless jewel he threw away with his own hands, and what kind of grave he dug for himself...
