Shao Heng Won't Back Down

In her previous life, Shen Qingci was the eldest legitimate daughter of the Duke of Zhenguo’s household. She entered the palace as empress, only to be framed by her half-sister and the imperial consort and charged with treason. Her entire family was executed. Only as she lay dying did she learn that she had been nothing but a pawn: the emperor wanted her family’s military power, while her half-sister wanted her throne.

Reborn at fifteen, three months before the selection ceremony, Shen Qingci opened her eyes with the burning pain of poisoned wine still lingering in her palm.

This time, she would no longer be a pawn for others to manipulate.

She would make her enemies pay in blood, protect her entire family, and claim the highest throne of all. But she would do so not as anyone’s wife, but as the master of her own fate.

What she never expected was that Xiao Yan, the regent who had only ever used her in their previous life, would appear time and again just when she needed him most. Those unfathomable eyes of his held a meaning she could not understand.