From the Start, She Was Dumped by Her Fiancé; She Married into the Family and Became Emperor, So Why Are You Crying?

[A gentle-seeming heroine who kills countless people with a smile vs. a cool-seeming hero who pretends to be aloof but is really a conniving green tea]

Shen Tang Sui and Li Yinqing were betrothed as children.

Everyone praised it as a perfect match.

But Li Yinqing hated the engagement.

What he hated most was Shen Tang Sui's meek, saintly manner and her inability to lose her temper.

She was neither tall and imposing like a martial artist nor refined and aloof like the scholar next door.

She was just a vulgar woman who cared about money.

He was determined to get away from this hopeless nobody as soon as possible.

Li Yinqing got his wish: he broke off his engagement to Shen Tang Sui and married the one he loved.

When he heard that Shen Tang Sui had ventured deep into the mountains and climbed glaciers to find rare treasures, all to cheer up her new husband, he sneered. “How servile. All she can do is wag her tail and beg for favor.”

Later, Yunqing City came under attack, and she led troops in a breakout.

After that, she seized Jiangdong, marched on the northern lands, and unified the realm.

Years later, when they met again, his entire clan had become her prisoners.

He had thought she would be as gentle as before and spare him out of consideration for their old ties. After all, she had once been utterly devoted to him.

He never imagined she would indeed be just as gentle as before, but reserve that gentleness for the people at her side.

A few days after Shen Tang Sui broke off her engagement to Li Yinqing, she became a live-in son-in-law to the Ji family.

At first, the young man would cling to her late into the night, yet by day he'd say coolly, “We'll only be husband and wife in name. Whatever happens in bed is just an act.”

Later, Ji Yanqiu rested his head on her lap. Watching the beauties sent to her flirt with her, he said with a blank expression, “My wife, look at them. They're so plain, they're unworthy of you. They might even frighten the child in your womb. Whoever sent them here has unforgivable intentions.”