Spoiled After Becoming a Widow Before Marriage, So Why Are You Crying?

Shen Yunsu, the daughter of a fourth-rank official in the capital, is reborn in the third year of mourning her late husband. Her entire family has been condemned, and her only younger brother is imprisoned. With nowhere else to turn, she begs her mother-in-law for help, only to be met with the cruel humiliation of “You brought this on yourself.” Desperate, she turns to the one person in the household no one dares offend: her late husband’s third uncle, Lu Shiyan, a cavalry general who commands a mighty army and wields power over the entire court.

To save her family, Shen Yunsu hides her sharp edges and uses herself as bait, knocking on the door of his bloodstained study to gamble on a deal that serves them both. She knows he needs a pawn to stir up trouble in the Duke’s household, and a “blemish” to fend off a princess’s arranged match. She thinks that once the deal is done, they can settle their accounts and go their separate ways. But just when she believes everything has been settled, the austere, unfeeling man tears up the “contract” she thought they had.

On a rainy night, Lu Shiyan pins her against the window. His eyes hold an obsession and madness she cannot understand, and his scorching breath brushes her ear as he rasps, “Yunsu, now that you’ve fallen into my trap, do you still think you can walk away unscathed?” With an utterly unquestionable air, he declares to the whole household, “From now on, she belongs to me.”

Shen Yunsu is stunned. What happened to their deal? What happened to his supposed disinterest in women? She has spent this life plotting every step and calculating everyone’s motives, but never imagined she would go from being a pawn to becoming the one vulnerability and cherished love of this powerful official.