On My Wedding Night, I Make Evil Spirits Kneel Before the Hall

Her stepmother sold Shen Zhaotang to the Yongning Marquis's residence to bring good fortune to its master. The groom was the sickly young heir, who had been unconscious for three years. The whole capital waited to see the residence's sinister forces drag her to her death, while the noble ladies of the household saw her as nothing more than a lowborn bride brought in to ward off disaster.

On the night her bridal sedan stopped outside the ancestral hall, half the red candles went out, and bloody words seeped from beneath the ancestral tablets. Everyone demanded she kneel before the ancestors and take the heir's misfortune upon herself. But Shen Zhaotang pulled an old book from beneath the altar table. The first rule of the household written inside read: Once the principal wife enters the household, she holds the authority to judge and punish matters of yin and yang.

From that day on, the Marquis's residence was turned upside down. She punished the wicked servants who switched the life-lamps, the concubine who raised ghosts to seize the title, the wronged souls trapped beneath the ancestral graves, and the palace noble who used a contract with the dead to scheme against the heir. She punished them all without exception.

People asked her if she was afraid.

Shen Zhaotang raised her hand and stamped down the seal of punishment.

"The rules of the Marquis's residence apply to the living, and to the dead as well."