In her previous life, she was a consort who married into the imperial palace in a blaze of glory, only to be cruelly forced to die as a funerary offering. Her maternal family was falsely accused of treason and sentenced to execution along with their entire clan.
When she opens her eyes again, she has been reborn as the concubine-born younger sister who married into the Loyal and Brave Marquis’s household.
Her husband is a hypocrite, her mother-in-law hides a poisonous heart behind a pious smile, her cousin is a fake innocent, and her father-in-law is selfish and sanctimonious. They frame her, set fires, and practice witchcraft against her. Every last one of them. Excellent.
Then she’ll ruin his reputation, expose her true nature, and make her beg for mercy…
But when did she get involved with the man from her previous life who murdered his mother, killed his wife, turned on his mentor, and slaughtered his siblings?
*
The handsome, aloof man corners her against the wall and waves a hibiscus hairpin. “Be my principal wife. Just to make up the numbers!”
Chu Jingfei: “No, no! Your three principal wives are all fair and beautiful. I’ve been married before, so I’m not good enough for you!”
After all, when other men marry, they offer betrothal gifts.
When Xiao Li marries, he takes a life.
Yet he treasures her, his concubine, in his heart and spoils her without restraint.
*
The man rumored to be cold and free of desire grips her by the waist. Where has all that aloofness gone?
“You were the one who got me involved. Now you want to run? Too late.”
Later, her former husband Xiao Yulang is reduced to a stray dog, kneeling beneath the palace steps and begging for his life.
But the wife who once belonged to him is leaning against Xiao Li, smiling brightly.
Xiao Li looks down at him from above. “It’s thanks to your blindness and foolishness that I came to possess this world’s greatest treasure.”
In this life, she not only protects her whole family, but also manages to tame this mad wolf into the most obedient of dogs.
