After three years of secret marriage, Shen Yunzhi thought her husband was simply a quiet, cold man who never revealed her identity to anyone.
Then he brought his first love's look-alike into their home, speaking to her softly and treating her with endless tenderness.
And when the adopted son she had poured her heart into raising turned around and called someone else his mother, Shen Yunzhi finally gave up on them completely.
She wanted nothing more to do with her heartless husband or the adopted son who wasn't related to her by blood. From now on, she would love only herself!
After faking her death, Shen Yunzhi returned to her old trade. She designed machinery and made farm tools, rising in one fell swoop to become the top female artisan in Xuan Shang. Even the remote, impoverished city where she lived was often visited by the powerful and influential.
When she learned that her aunt wanted to find her a match, the Crown Prince, a general, the top scholar, the Prince Regent...the most outstanding men from across the land all eagerly put themselves forward, vying to win her favor.
Her remorseful ex-husband turned white-haired overnight and knelt to beg for reconciliation:
“Zhizhi, the magistrate may set fires, but you won't let me leave you?”
The adopted son, rebuffed at every turn, clung to her leg in tears:
“Mother, please don't abandon Yuan'er. Yuan'er can't live without you.”
Unexpectedly, the famously ruthless and cruel Prince of Zhenbei, Xiao Mingye, appeared alongside a young prince who had already earned great military honors at just seven years old:
“Get lost. A-Zhi is mine in life and mine in death.”
“She is my mother, my real mother. Only I get to call her that. Bark at her again and I'll sew your mouth shut.”
The last chapter is the previous chapter, I didn't see the ending, my love brain is asking for trouble, the previous chapter is okay, please give it a try, the author