When Crown Prince Zhao Chen uses “the debt of saving my life” as his excuse to marry both Su Qingli and her half-sister, Su Qingwan, Su Qingli’s ten years of devotion become a cruel joke. At the palace banquet, she tosses the keepsake purse that symbolized their engagement at the scoundrel’s face without a second thought. “I don’t want to be crown princess anymore!”
To escape her predicament, she turns around and reaches an agreement with Prince Jing, Zhao Heng, a man of immense power who is paralyzed in both legs. They sign a marriage contract: he needs a clever princess consort to shield him from trouble and manage the household, while she wants the title to build a career and live freely. They agree to divorce after three years, owing each other nothing.
But the story soon veers off course. The cold-faced prince, who keeps insisting they’re “working together for mutual benefit,” becomes her most fiercely protective ally. As she outwits the ridiculous, puts the prince’s estate in order, and secretly builds her own business empire, he provides weapons and backing, while quietly clearing obstacles from her path.
When the crown prince finally sees the error of his ways and bitterly regrets losing her, he finds the imperial uncle he once looked down on carefully helping his “treasure” into a carriage, his gaze cold as a blade. “Crown Prince, call her your imperial aunt.”
See how this clear-headed, decisive former crown princess rides the waves in a marriage of convenience with a cold-faced prince, wins success in both love and career, and becomes someone her worthless ex can never hope to reach!
