Strong heroine + strong hero = a power couple!
The heroine isn't a clinging vine who depends on the hero.
They share the same values.
The hero dotes on his wife.
The heroine grows wild and thrives on her own!
Everything depends on her own careful planning.
Scheming, revenge!!! A massive twist
“Is the Jingyuan Marquis Household really so wonderful in every way? Why would they ever think my Shu’er was good enough for them? Anyone with eyes can see that the old marquis is on his deathbed. Their heir is fighting on the border, his life and death unknown, yet they rushed to arrange a marriage with my Shu’er. First, they want her to bring good fortune to their old marquis. Second, their household is on the brink of ruin, and they desperately need my Shu’er’s dowry to shore up their finances and preserve the wealth and status of their main branch.”
“Zicheng, mind your words!” The elderly clan leader, nearing seventy, rapped his cane against the floor.
Yan Zicheng glanced at the clan leader and ignored him, continuing to object on his own: “What do you think they want from her? My Shu’er’s good name and intelligence? Or her peerless beauty? No, no, neither of those! Neither!” His voice rose with anguish, and he stopped caring who heard him. “What they want is the hundred million taels of silver owned by the Yan family.”
Then, as if all the strength had drained from him, he murmured miserably, “If the heir returns safely and his family regains the emperor’s favor, will they cast my Shu’er aside like a blade of grass?” If the heir never came back, his young Shu’er would be branded a husband-killer and forced to spend the rest of her life shut away in that grand manor, keeping a widow’s vigil for someone else. Just imagining it felt as though a million knives had been plunged into his heart. Whether they were pulled out or not, either way would be unbearable.
