The Princess of Yihe’s Revenge: Phoenix Rules the Realm

Shen Huainian, the daughter of Grand Princess Zhaohua and Commandery Princess Yi He, married into the Marquis of Xingguo’s household at fifteen. For five years, she supported her husband, raised their child, and upheld every expectation of a virtuous wife. Then, in the fifth year of their marriage, she discovered that her husband, Chu Huaijin, the Marquis of Xingguo, was having an affair with his widowed sister-in-law, Madam Lin, who was already pregnant.

With the tacit approval of her mother-in-law, Old Madam Chen, Chu Huaijin and Madam Lin planned to fake his death in a riding accident so they could run away together and seize the marquisate’s wealth. Enraged but outwardly calm, Shen Huainian set a trap that turned their fake deaths into real ones. She then swiftly brought the household to heel, punished her wicked mother-in-law, and took firm control of the marquisate.

Over the next three years, she raised her son into a worthy heir and told him the truth about his father’s fake death and elopement. Three years later, an imperial decree summoned her to the palace and bestowed upon her the title of Noble Consort. But Chu Huaijin, her scoundrel of a husband, returned under an assumed name, having somehow come back from the dead, full of regret…