[System + Strong Female Lead + Scheming Male Lead + Satisfying Revenge + Heart-wrenching Angst]
Straight to hell from the start! Poisoned by the person she loves most and sent away for a political marriage?!
Shen Ce, the Great Zhou’s God of War, plans not only to send his childhood sweetheart Jiang Li to the northern frontier as a bargaining chip, but also to have her die in the Northern King’s bed, using it as an excuse to plunge the two nations into a bloody war!
Jiang Li sneers. The System activates, she cures the poison and strikes back!
If you have no regard for me, don’t expect me to show you any mercy! I’ll make sure the heavens can no longer blind me, and that everyone in the land sees the treachery in General Shen’s heart!
She goes undercover in the northern frontier, stepping over blood one step at a time until she turns that man-eating royal court into her throne.
But she never expected the man who always claimed to care only for the greater good to kneel at her feet, clutch her hem, and weep like a child:
“Li’er, don’t leave me. Even if I have to die, let me die by your hand.”
When the truth comes to light and a crumpled marriage proposal falls into view, she finally understands:
All his corruption and madness were nothing more than a desperate attempt to send her, with his own hands, down the dead-end path called “survival.”
