In her previous life, she took a cup of poisoned wine meant for the emperor and was rewarded by being made crown princess.
Shen Zhao thought she had struck it lucky.
Only after the wedding did she realize she was crown princess in name alone. The crown prince was a hopeless romantic whose heart belonged to his childhood sweetheart.
Shen Zhao endured one indignity after another to preserve the royal family's reputation. She never imagined it would earn her nothing but lifelong imprisonment, while the crown prince gave his love to someone else.
Given another life, she wanted nothing more to do with the coldhearted crown prince.
To avoid being used as a weapon again, Shen Zhao set her sights on Prince Xuan, known as the cold-faced King of Hell.
Prince Xuan was cold by nature and disowned even his own family. He was still unmarried in his twenties, and his manor had neither a concubine nor even a bedchamber maid. People in the streets said he was a homosexual and had no interest in women.
The whole capital waited for Prince Xuan to divorce her, eager to see Shen Zhao humiliated.
But as they waited, one day they suddenly saw Shen Zhao walking through the streets with a man, smiling, her belly visibly rounded.
Everyone was stunned. How had Prince Xuan, a towering, muscular War God who looked as if he had emerged from the underworld, changed so much?
The crown prince exclaimed, “Shen Zhao, you don't even know to kneel when you see me anymore?”
The man beside her stepped forward and shielded Shen Zhao. “Kneel down and greet your Imperial Uncle and Aunt…”
