On her wedding day, Shen Ruojin, daughter of a military family, was betrayed by her fiancé, Pei Jing, and her half-sister. Soon, the whole city knew she had been abandoned. Memories of her past life suddenly returned. She remembered that she had trusted those two, only for her family to be destroyed and for her to die with her name cleared too late. Reborn at the turning point of her fate, Shen Ruojin acted decisively and chose Qin Lang, the capital’s most notorious playboy, as her groom in front of everyone, stunning the crowd. Everyone assumed it was an impulsive act of revenge, but they had no idea it was the first move in her carefully laid plan. After the wedding, Shen Ruojin and Qin Lang agreed to divorce after a year. She planned to use that time to rebuild her family’s influence and prepare to avenge her previous life. But Qin Lang, who seemed carefree and dissolute, revealed astonishing talent and strategic skill. He stood up for her when she was harassed and masterminded her campaigns when she led troops into battle. As time passed, Shen Ruojin realized Qin Lang seemed to be hiding secrets of his own, while her enemies from her past life were secretly joining forces. A storm powerful enough to overturn the court was about to break. Faced with an impossible choice, Shen Ruojin had to decide between personal revenge and the greater good of her country. Meanwhile, the feelings between her and Qin Lang, which had begun as a transaction, gradually deepened amid the turmoil. When the ultimate mastermind finally emerged, Shen Ruojin understood that a far greater conspiracy lay behind the tragedy of her past life, and that perhaps her meeting with Qin Lang had been destined from the very beginning.
. The beginning is okay, read on.