Shen Qingci, the undisputed champion of palace intrigue, wakes up in the modern age in the body of a “gold-digging discarded wife” mocked across the internet. Her husband despises her, her family looks down on her, and netizens demand that she get out of the wealthy family.
Faced with a completely unfamiliar world and over 999 messages of abuse on her phone, Shen Qingci smiles. “I kept an entire empire in line. You think I can’t handle a little storm like this?”
On a livestream, she burns incense and prepares tea, stunning her haters with an ancient ceremony long since lost. At a fashion gala, her ahead-of-her-time taste captivates the entire room. When a business crisis hits, she uses the wisdom of the ancients to turn the tables with minimal effort, helping her nominally cold and distant husband stage an impossible comeback.
When an award-winning actor openly falls for her and a rising tech mogul sees her as his one true confidante, her once-disdainful husband, Gu Tingyuan, pins her against the wall, his eyes bloodshot. “Who are you, really?”
Shen Qingci toys with the share certificate in her hand, the one that represents a business empire, and looks back with a smile. “I’m someone you could never hope to deserve.”
From internet punching bag to everyone’s darling, from discarded wife to a top-tier star of traditional culture. Watch as an ancient empress dowager uses a thousand years of wisdom to write her own modern comeback legend.
