Fan Jinghe’s mother took a blade meant for the Empress Dowager, earning the Duke’s household a death-exemption token.
Three years after her mother’s death, Fan Jinghe was framed. The heir to the Marquis’s household defied convention to save her from disaster.
Overnight, she became the envy of everyone in the capital.
The heir didn’t look down on her merchant family background and insisted on marrying her. On their wedding night, he died a tragic death.
Branded as a jinx who killed her husband and cast out by the Duke’s household, she devoted her entire life to the Marquis’s family.
When she was gravely ill, her husband, whose spirit tablet had long been placed on the altar, returned with a young woman, intending to move her into the household.
The two pairs of children she had lovingly raised clung to the couple and called them Mother and Father.
The Marquis and his wife ordered her to give up her position as head of the household.
Fan Jinghe refused to her dying breath. They threw her body into the wilderness, where wild dogs devoured it.
Reborn, she watched her husband feign death and collapse before her.
She swore to make him regret not only marrying her,
but to turn the entire Marquis’s household into a mountain of corpses and a sea of flames!
Reborn for revenge, Fan Jinghe is willing to become Prince Jingyang’s pawn.
“The only person I love is the Empress. Don’t get the wrong idea. Your job is to make her jealous, make her feel humiliated, and make her throw herself into my arms. Whatever you want, I’ll grant it.”
She agreed.
Under the guise of being the young mistress of the Marquis’s household, she secretly consorted with him. She made the Empress restless with jealousy, the Empress Dowager fret with worry, the Emperor lose his head, and the Marquis’s household throw all propriety aside in anger.
Years later, Prince Jingyang became the new emperor.
He held the Empress’s phoenix seal in both hands and knelt before her, gazing up at her with earnest longing. “Stay with me, please?”
Fan Jinghe, who had always been loyal and obedient, shook her head in defiance. “No.”
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