After Gathering the Nine Dragon Pearls, She Became the Court’s Most Coveted Treasure

Before her wedding to Crown Prince Xie Huaiqian, Shen Chuxi accompanied her grandmother to Qinglian Temple to offer incense. A sudden downpour forced them to stay the night. That night, a criminal broke into her room and violated her, leaving her pregnant with his child. To protect the family's reputation, her father personally pushed her into the river and faked her death by drowning. A close friend who happened to pass by rescued her. On the same day, the two women each gave birth to quadruplets, four boys and four girls, and arranged betrothals for them while they were still infants. But on the day of the children's first-month celebration, Crown Princess Consort Song Zhinian led people in a massacre at the Fang residence and took all the children. Seven years later, Shen Chuxi returned in triumph. She took revenge, punished the villains, searched for her children, and, along the way, gathered the legendary Nine Dragon Pearls and uncovered a mysterious treasure left behind by a former dynasty, becoming the toast of the imperial court. Ever since Crown Prince Xie Huaiqian was sent by his father to a neighboring kingdom as a hostage at the age of twelve, he had kept a secret in his heart: he loved the young lady of the Yongning Marquis's household, the girl who had reached out to him through the flames. He wanted to marry her. At twenty-two, he finally obtained his father's consent for the marriage and eagerly awaited his beloved's arrival. But before the wedding, she drowned in an accident while returning to her hometown to pay respects to her ancestors. He thought he would never see her again in this lifetime. But seven years later, a woman who looked exactly like her burst into his life with a group of children. He grabbed her hand, overcome with emotion. “Chuxi, is that you?” But the children swarmed him and beat him up. “Get lost! Stay away from our mother, or we'll take your throne even if you are our father!”