[Revenge · both reborn · husband and wife join forces · court intrigue · marriage before love · frontier · the fate of the nation]
At the moment the white silk tightened around his neck, he heard a servant crying out, “Madam struck her head against a pillar to prove her resolve. She’s dead!”
When he opened his eyes again, he was back on the third day of their marriage. Beside him lay her peaceful sleeping face: still alive, still warm.
In his previous life, he was the richest man in Jiangnan. He trusted the wrong mentor, indulged his relatives, and caused her death. He, too, died in the imperial prison.
In this life, he swore that everyone who had betrayed him or harmed her would pay a hundredfold!
His relatives came looking for trouble? He exposed them in public and cast them out of the family. His mentor set a trap? He turned the tables and sent him to prison. Corrupt officials framed him? He sneered, “I have the imperial sword. I can execute first and report afterward!”
But why was she becoming more and more distant? Why did she look at him with suspicion and wariness?
He didn’t know that she, too, carried fragments of her past life. She simply didn’t dare trust him again.
This time, he would be the one to win her back.
