Shen Mingshu was born the best and was the least favored.
Her mother is a step-mother. She will only bow her head to please her husband and sleep with his deceased wife throughout her life. She will not even protect her two daughters. Her father valued her not because of pain, but because she was beautiful, smart, and capable, and could just be given away for a more valuable marriage.
At the flower letter banquet, my younger sister was humiliated, my mother gave in, my eldest sister was proud, and all the ladies in the house were waiting to see her swallow her humiliation.
She doesn't.
She made a stand in front of everyone, and her words made everyone's faces look up, and also made the man not far away who was the most difficult to offend take another look at her.
Pei Xingzhou, the emperor's most trusted favored minister, holds the dirtiest and most difficult job in his hands. After one year of marriage, his wife died of illness and left behind a son. Everyone said that he was cold, steady, and unkind, and no one knew that his late wife might not really have died of illness.
Shen Mingshu originally just wanted to use his power to protect her sister and herself, and not to be given away as a gift by the family.
But through borrowing, she discovered that there was actually a person in this world who would give her a way out, put her into his own situation, and personally protect her through the door when the rumors were at their worst.
Before marriage, it was a transaction, after marriage, it was about protecting shortcomings, and later it became a side-by-side relationship.
Until the epidemic broke out, Pei Xingzhou was ordered to go to danger and almost died in the epidemic area.
She goes to great lengths to drag people back from the dead.
After he woke up, he gave up all his power and fame and only said one sentence to her:
"Mingshu, let's die together."
From then on, everyone knew that the powerful minister died in the epidemic, and his wife Xixian also disappeared with him.
Only she knows that some people have to bury their old names to truly live their lives.
