In her past life, Shen Yuan spent two lifetimes stumbling blindly through life.
When she was eight, her stepmother set fire to the house and killed her birth mother. She believed it was an “accident.”
At fifteen, her stepsister stole her marriage match, and she was sent to the crown prince as a concubine. She accepted it as “fate.”
For three years in the Eastern Palace, she thought the crown prince felt at least a little affection for her. In the end, she learned the truth:
She was nothing but a substitute.
The day she took the poisoned wine meant for her stepsister, the crown prince told the imperial physician, “Don’t bother. She’s only a substitute. Let her die.”
Her stepsister chuckled in her ear. “Sister, you should have died in that fire in the first place.”
As she closed her eyes, Shen Yuan swore: If she had another life, she would make everyone who had wronged her pay in blood.
When she opened her eyes again, she was fifteen once more.
Her stepmother was still pretending to be loving, her stepsister was still putting on a gentle act, and the crown prince was still searching for a substitute who “looks just like Shen Chuchu.”
This time, Shen Yuan smiled.
She would no longer be anyone’s substitute.
She would make the crown prince kneel and beg her to come back.
She would make her stepmother and stepsister learn what true misery was.
She just hadn’t expected that, on her path to revenge, she would attract the attention of an even more dangerous man:
The regent, famed for his ruthlessness and cold-blooded nature, insisted on taking her hand and saying,
“Marry me, and the whole world will be yours to use as a bargaining chip for revenge.”
Shen Yuan: “...Regent, I only want to focus on my career.”
The regent chuckled softly. “What a coincidence. You are my career.”
In her past life, Shen Yuan spent two lifetimes stumbling blindly through life.
When she was eight, her stepmother set fire to the house and killed her birth mother. She believed it was an “accident.”
At fifteen, her stepsister stole her marriage match, and she was sent to the crown prince as a concubine.
