In her previous life, Shen Qingci gave her whole heart to Regent Xiao Jue and poured all the Shen family’s resources into helping him rise to power. In the end, her entire family was executed, and she herself died a miserable death in the Cold Palace.
He doted on his scheming concubine, treated Shen Qingci like a thorn in his side, and trampled both her devotion and the Shen family’s loyalty underfoot.
When she was reborn, she returned to the day the imperial decree ordered her stripped of her title and sent to the Cold Palace.
The foolish consort who had once loved him so desperately was dead. Shen Qingci had returned from the flames with a heart of iron and a dangerous glint in her eyes.
They dared to force her into the Cold Palace? She threw the imperial decree straight to the ground!
A servant dared to step forward and humiliate her? Without a word, she broke his leg and had him thrown out!
Xiao Jue came raging, while his scheming concubine played the victim and plotted against her. Shen Qingci met them all with cold indifference, each word striking to the heart.
They wanted to condemn her on a whim? Then Xiao Jue could come see her in person!
The lives he owed her, the blood he owed the Shen family: she would reclaim every last bit, with interest!
In this life, she would not be a discarded consort for others to manipulate, nor a weeping, bitter woman. She wanted only to wield power, crush her enemies, and protect her family.
As for that cold-hearted, unfaithful Regent who had wounded her to the bone?
Shen Qingci’s lips curled with scorn. “He isn’t worthy!”
