After the New Emperor Broke Off Our Engagement, My Whole Family Gave Up

Shen Shiyan defied the late king's decree, determined to make his childhood sweetheart his empress. On the day the new empress moved into the palace, everyone in my family either resigned or shut up shop. We closed our doors and wanted nothing more to do with the world. An empty treasury? War on the borders? My whole family is done with all of it. Go ask your empress for help. What? Even my sister, who married into another country and became its queen, has come back to stand up for me? I watched my brother-in-law press a knife to the new king's neck, grinding his teeth as he said, "Why did you have to provoke them?" I glanced at the destitute palace, where everything had been pawned, then at the newly impoverished king as enemy troops came knocking. Exactly. Why did you have to provoke us?