[Marriage first, love later + a chase to win her back + a dual-sided female lead + political intrigue]
In her previous life, Shen Qingjiang was the biggest laughingstock in Dongyang City.
A legitimate daughter of a marquis’s household, she shamelessly climbed into the bed of Prince Dingbei, Xiao Yan, and got a decree of imperial betrothal in return. For three years of marriage, she poured every ounce of affection into trying to warm a stone, only to be met with his increasingly icy gaze and the humiliation of his mistress moving openly into their home.
Reborn, she found that the imperial betrothal decree had yet to arrive.
Xiao Yan was still perched high above her, waiting to see how shamelessly she would throw herself at him.
This time, Shen Qingjiang wiped the rouge from her lips as she looked into the bronze mirror, smiling coldly.
The prince likes women who are aloof? Then she’ll be aloof for him.
The prince hates being pestered? Then she’ll stay far away.
But when she turned and left without sparing him a glance, the man who had always been cool and composed lost his composure. His eyes reddened as he cornered her against the wall, his voice hoarse. “Shen Qingjiang, what do you want?”
She looked up and smiled faintly. “What I want is something Your Highness can’t give me.”
“, I want your life.”
