In her previous life, Shen Zhaoning spent ten years a widow in the Marquis of Zhenbei's household.
She gave away her entire dowry, honored her late husband's parents, raised his younger brother, and upheld the family's glory. In the end, she was rewarded with a colossal joke
Her husband had never died.
He returned after faking his death, leading his beloved by the hand as he strode back to the capital over Shen Zhaoning's corpse. She, the “virtuous widow,” had been nothing more than a pawn the marquis's household used to protect its wealth, reputation, and secrets.
When she opened her eyes again, she was back in the mourning hall.
The whole capital expected her to don mourning clothes and remain a widow for the rest of her life for the Xie family.
Instead, Shen Zhaoning tore off her mourning cloth in front of everyone and said coldly, “Let whoever wants to be a widow do it.”
The marquis's household called her unchaste, noble ladies mocked her as a lunatic, and her former husband waited in the shadows for her to bow her head.
But the next moment, Prince Regent Xiao Che arrived in person at the marquis's residence and presented her with a marriage contract.
“Shen Zhaoning, marry me.”
From then on, she wore a red bridal gown and trampled the marquis's household into the dust. He wielded the power of life and death and stood firmly by her side.
In this life, she would not be a widow, and she would not accept her fate.
Those who bully her will kneel.
Those who betray her will die.
And what she wants has never been merely to marry the Prince Regent…
