In her previous life, she was a well-behaved girl whose life was planned out for her.
At thirty, her mother tore up her job offer right in front of her.
At a matchmaking dinner, a balding man said calmly, “If you marry me, you'll have to wash my mother's feet.”
She flung a cup of hot tea at him. The next second, her heart stopped.
When she opened her eyes again, she was the legitimate daughter of the Shen family in the Great Zhao Dynasty.
She was being forced to marry fifty-two-year-old Liu Huchen.
The original owner had slashed her wrists with a silver hairpin the night before, bleeding all over the floor, only to be forcibly saved by her maid.
Even death was not hers to choose.
Shen Qingci clenched the bloodstained hairpin.
Enough.
Two lifetimes of swallowing her anger ended here.
She tore up her wedding dress, smashed her phoenix crown, and cursed the groom so fiercely in front of everyone that he spat blood on the spot.
She opened a kiln and brewed wine, single-handedly pulling the failing Shen family out of the mire.
All she wanted was to run a peaceful business, find a good man, and live a quiet life.
Until the man she loved was framed and killed, his head hung high above the city gate.
Until the little dumpling crouched in the snow, counting candies one by one.
One, two, three...
At the seventh candy, the little hand paused.
“I'm saving this one for Brother Xiao.”
Shen Qingci wiped away her tears and looked toward the capital.
A thief wears the top scholar's red robe. This cruel world has to end.
She doesn't want revenge.
She wants to change the world.
Three years later, a gentle young man entered the examination hall.
Not a single official in the court knew that the seemingly harmless scholar before them...
had come to topple the entire court.
[Female-Centered Story | Political Intrigue and Business | Disguised as a Man | Transmigration]
