I Entered the Estate as a Lucky Bride and Became the Heir’s Blade

The day Shen Yanci was sent to the Marquis of Zhenbei’s residence, the whole capital waited to see him make a fool of himself.

A disgraced minister’s son and a sickly heir to the title: by all appearances, this was a short-lived marriage meant to bring good fortune and ward off disaster.

But no one knew that on their wedding night, Shen Yanci discovered

The heir, Pei Xingzhao, who was rumored to be too ill to get out of bed, was no invalid at all.

He had married Shen Yanci not to bring him good fortune,

but to use him as a blade and uncover an old case buried for years in the marquis’s household.

The first wife’s death, the second branch’s grab for power, old military accounts, a suspicious salt case, the extermination of an old clan…

As one secret after another came to light, Shen Yanci finally understood that he hadn’t stumbled into this game by chance. He had been part of it from the very beginning.

At first, they used each other and tested one another.

But in time, they became the only people in this deadly game willing to trust each other with their backs.