When she opens her eyes, Shen Zhiwei, a history PhD, has become Kyoto's much-ridiculed jilted legitimate daughter. Her stepmother schemes against her, her scumbag ex insults her, and she's just rolling up her sleeves to fight back when a sickly prince, coughing so hard he can barely breathe, corners her against a wall. Everyone says Seventh Prince Xiao Jingheng won't live to see twenty. Only Shen Zhiwei knows that he will become the cold-blooded emperor who holds the court in his grasp. He strokes her cheek with his fingertips and murmurs hoarsely, “Marry me. I'll help you make them pay a hundredfold for everything they owe you.”
