Three Years a Widow in the Marquis's Manor, Then the Emperor Seizes Me and Makes Me Empress

Gu Qingyao has been married into the Marquis of Anyuan’s household for three years, and has spent all three as a wife in name only. Her husband, Han Xiuyuan, is cold and heartless. To curry favor with the powerful, he forces himself to marry Zheng Wanning, the Grand Preceptor’s daughter, as his secondary wife. Arrogant to the extreme, Zheng Wanning tramples Gu Qingyao underfoot and pushes her into an icy pond, where she drowns.

Reborn, she refuses to endure it any longer. She slaps a divorce agreement in her scumbag husband’s face, flips over the banquet tables, and walks away.

She thought all she wanted from this life was a quiet existence. But every night, the pull of a soul-jade draws her into dreams where she is entangled with a mysterious man. He turns out to be the tyrant Pei Lingxiao, ruthless and decisive, just returned from the northern frontier with his cavalry!

The Zheng family gets cocky? Strip them of their title and confiscate their property. Han Xiuyuan begs her to come back? She kicks him away.

He traps her on the imperial throne, his eyes filled with a sick possessiveness. “I’ve waited eight years for you. You can only be my empress. Anyone who covets you will be tortured to death.”