I was the most overlooked daughter of the Shen family, a concubine-born girl forced by my legitimate sister to take her place and marry the crippled general she had rejected. My stepmother laughed that I was only fit to pick up what her daughter left behind, while my sister sneered that I deserved to spend my life as a widow. On our wedding night, I met the husband rumored to be gravely wounded and near death. Not only was he perfectly unharmed, he was the iron-blooded emperor who had avenged me and razed the imperial city in my previous life! In this life, he awakened ten years early. His eyes gleamed with a fearsome intensity as he said, “My lady, it’s been a long time.”
