[Female-led + Court Intrigue + Crushing the Villains]
Shen Nian'an's husband was named the top scholar among the successful candidates, and she waited for him to honor his promise and secure her a noble title one day. But who could have guessed that the first thing the ungrateful bastard would do after making it was turn on the wife who had stood by him through hardship, plotting to kill her so he could marry the daughter of a high-ranking official?
Fired up, Shen Nian'an heads to the capital to demand justice. At a moment of crisis, she uses a jade pendant her mother left her to seek help from one of her mother's old acquaintances, only to discover that she has an older brother who is the emperor...
