Reborn, I Saved the Emperor and Was Made a County Princess, Then Wiped Out the Ungrateful Wolves of the Marquis’s Estate

Shen Shuyi was gravely wounded while taking a blade meant for her father. Under pressure from public opinion, she was sent to Jiangnan to recuperate for three years. Three years later, after overcoming countless obstacles and dangers, she returned, only to find her fiancé marrying her younger half-sister. The guests were full of praise, her parents and brothers were beaming, and everything seemed joyous. But whenever they spoke of her, they voiced nothing but contempt. She later learned that during those three years, she had become a notorious wanton in the capital, someone who had abandoned her betrothed despite their longstanding engagement and eloped with another man, disgraced the family, squandered money, and repeatedly sent letters demanding cash on the strength of having once saved her father. They even claimed she had brought her fate upon herself and was already dead. Shen Shuyi showed up to demand answers, determined to reveal the truth and clear her name. But that very night, the courtyard where she lived was engulfed in flames. At the critical moment, the marquis’s stable hand forcibly carried her to safety, while a crowd outside watched him holding her in his arms. Claiming she owed them a debt of gratitude, the marquis’s household joined forces with the censorate to force her into marriage with him. For three years after the wedding, she was beaten by the stable hand, Zhou Feng, every day. Only at the end did she learn the truth: the marquis’s household had engineered the fire. Reborn, she looked at the assassins filling the hall and her father, gazing at her desperately and waiting to be saved. She ran straight to the Empress Dowager and stood in front of her. The merit for saving the Empress Dowager would be hers. “With me backing you, if anyone from the marquis’s household dares mistreat you, I’ll see justice done!” From then on, Shen Shuyi broke free of the marquis’s household and began a new life. Without her, the rot at the heart of the already-decaying household slowly came to light. She not only watched coldly from the sidelines, but also knew when to fan the flames, making its downfall come faster and more forcefully. In return for kindness received, she chose to marry far away, to the Prince of Zhenbei…