Shen Zhaoxue married into the Marquis of Yongning's household three years ago. She paid off her in-laws' debts, served her mother-in-law, and paved the way for her husband.
Everyone in the capital said she was gentle and virtuous, and that she couldn't survive without the marquis's household.
Then one day, her husband brought his pregnant cousin into their home and demanded that Shen Zhaoxue give up her place as his primary wife.
Everyone waited for her to cry, to endure it, to kneel and beg for the dignity of a proper divorce.
Instead, Shen Zhaoxue flung three account books down in front of them all.
One detailed the marquis's household's debts.
One showed that her husband had misappropriated her dowry.
The third contained proof that he had embezzled disaster relief funds.
She handed over a divorce agreement. “Today, you are not casting me aside. I, Shen Zhaoxue, am the one who no longer wants you.”
Later, the marquis's household fell, and powerful nobles were brought down. Only then did the court realize that the discarded wife they'd looked down on had long since taken up the ledger as her weapon and stirred the capital into chaos.
Even Xie Linyuan, the cold and heartless Court of Judicial Review official, had red eyes beneath the drifting spring snow.
“Shen Zhaoxue, I won't ask you to turn back. I only ask that, as you walk forward, you let me walk by your side.”
Very good, the female protagonist is smart and the male protagonist also has his own story line