In her past life, Shen Cizhao, the legitimate daughter of the Duke of Zhenguo’s household, became a pawn to help the Third Prince seize the throne. She sacrificed her maternal family’s military strength, only to end up branded a traitor. Her husband’s father personally handed her the poisoned wine, while her half-sister watched her die with a cold smile. Only at the very end did she learn that she had merely been used as a scapegoat for her half-sister.
Reborn at fifteen, she has yet to fall for her half-sister’s disguise or hand a blade to her treacherous husband. This time, when she faces Xiao Heng, the bloodthirsty prince who commands a powerful army and whom she once humiliated again and again, Shen Cizhao chooses to join forces with him. She tears away her half-sister’s innocent facade and makes careful moves in the struggles of both court and household. When her scumbag husband regrets everything and her half-sister kneels to beg for mercy, Shen Cizhao discovers that the man she betrayed in her past life has already laid the whole world at her feet.
