Splendid Ashes: After Being Reborn, I Won’t Be a Princess Consort Again

In her previous life, Shen Mingwei married into the Duke of Anguo’s household, where her elder half-sister Shen Minglan and her husband, Gu Changyuan, conspired to kill her. Only as she lay dying did she learn she had been nothing more than a stepping stone for her sister’s rise to power. Reborn on the eve of her engagement at fifteen, she tore up the marriage arrangement made by her stepmother and instead married Xiao Yanheng, the “good-for-nothing” ninth prince whom everyone had looked down on in her previous life. Everyone was waiting to laugh at her, unaware that this supposedly “useless prince” commanded the most elite secret guard force in the empire, and that Shen Mingwei herself possessed the greatest golden finger of all: the memories of her previous life. With domestic and palace intrigue and political machinations building layer by layer, watch her rise from a discarded daughter in a sprawling household to the empress’s throne, crushing her enemies from her previous life beneath her feet.