In her previous life, Shen Qinghuan was the legitimate daughter of a military family. Her stepmother poisoned her, her half-sister disfigured her, and her fiancé personally sent her to the execution ground to be beheaded for treason. Reborn on the eve of her hairpin ceremony, she buries her boundless hatred beneath a gentle, helpless facade, while secretly exposing the true faces of the wolves around her...
Her stepmother wants control of the household? She turns over “evidence of embezzlement,” making her kneel in the ancestral hall and slap herself in the face.
Her half-sister wants to steal the position of crown princess? Shen Qinghuan schemes to humiliate her in public, and she ends up betrothed to a sixty-year-old vassal prince.
Her scumbag fiancé wants to use her military power to climb the ranks? She turns and clutches the regent’s robes. “Your Highness, they bully me because I have no one to rely on...”
Until one night, the man who holds power over the entire court lifts her chin. “You’ve been using me for so long. It’s time to pay interest.”
She smiles like a flower. “I have no interest to pay. But what about a phoenix crown? Will Your Highness give me one?”
