The Prince Begged Me to Fight the Other Wives. Me: Let's Just Burn It All Down!

[A heroine with a calm heart who occasionally loses it vs. a cold-on-the-outside, warm-on-the-inside hero who doesn’t realize he’s fallen for her] In her previous life, Ye Wan diligently fought for a place in the household, and finally managed to secure her footing in Prince Sheng’s residence, only to be poisoned to death in a scheme orchestrated by her ungrateful family. As she lay dying, blood streaming from every orifice and her face disfigured, her whole family, who had risen to prosperity thanks to her, looked down at her in her coffin with disdain. Her stepsister, who had taken her place as the prince’s secondary consort: “If you hadn’t been in my way, I’d have become the prince’s principal consort long ago!” Her father, by then a Minister of War: “If that girl hadn’t been so stubborn, I’d have been promoted to Grand General by now!” Her stepmother, now surrounded by wealth and glory: “She wouldn’t let me lend money, couldn’t stand seeing me prosper. In the end, she just resented that I wasn’t her birth mother.” Her younger brother, who had married a commandery princess: “Bah! If that wretched woman hadn’t held me back, I’d have run away with Yuan’er long ago!” Reborn, Ye Wan looked at her parents who were bent on their own destruction, her treacherous younger brother, her lovestruck sister, and her husband who had fallen for a widow. What a complete mess. “I’ve let it go. I don’t care anymore. Let them all fall apart!” This time, she wouldn’t strive for anything. She’d just watch her ungrateful family dig their own graves and bring about their own ruin, then retire to a nunnery. But the man who should have been absorbed in power and coldly indifferent began looking at her differently. They spent their days and nights entwined, and he even insisted on promoting her to principal consort. Ye Wan: I’m not taking that bait. The man looked at her reproachfully. “Wan’er, you took my body. Why don’t you want me now?” (They’re each other’s only partner! I’m a staunch believer in that!)