[A cunning, theatrical, scheming woman coroner who knows how to play her cards VS a tea-green Chief Eunuch who pursues her relentlessly and refuses to let anyone else have her]
A prestigious family? Excellent manners? The very picture of a gentleman?
Xie Chongnian has none of those things!
The people fear him, and the officials at court hate him to the bone, cursing him with the vilest words they can think of.
Ruthless, cruel, deserving of death…
He is used to it.
Until one day, a woman brimming with ambition yet always pretending to be gentle and docile forcefully took over his every thought.
She often looked at him and said, “My lord truly has the kindest heart in the world.”
How funny that she has no idea that the kindest man she speaks of spends every night wondering
How to carve the people who wronged her into a thousand pieces, and how to fight tooth and nail, by any means necessary, to claim her for himself and whisper sweet nothings in her ear…
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Yu Ji clung to a childhood obsession and chose a stand-in to marry. Unfortunately, her husband-to-be kept talking about taking a second wife and was anything but faithful.
If he won’t behave, then it’s goodbye!
After their divorce, her scumbag ex swore he would wait to see the miserable fate of a discarded woman.
Instead, he watched Yu Ji rise steadily through the ranks on the strength of her skills as a coroner.
He watched noble young men pursue her and wealthy young ladies admire her.
Even the Chief Eunuch, feared by all and powerful enough to dominate the court, fell for her and made a grand entrance as her live-in son-in-law!
[The second male lead takes the lead + the ex-husband’s long road to winning her back]
