A House Full of Loyal Martyrs? I Won't Be the Matriarch of This Marquis's Household!

Shen Qingyuan was the eldest legitimate daughter of the Duke of Zhenguo's household. She married into a marquis's family at fifteen and spent thirty years as its matriarch.

In those thirty years, her husband died in battle, two of her three sons were framed and imprisoned, and the third was left disabled for life. She used her dowry to cover a shortfall of two hundred thousand taels in military funds, then knelt before the imperial throne and battered her forehead bloody before finally earning an imperial plaque honoring her family as "Loyal to the End."

On her deathbed, her stepsister leaned close and whispered, "Sister, did you think the duke died in battle? No. The regent and my father joined forces to cut off his supplies."

When Shen Qingyuan opened her eyes again, she had returned to the night before her husband set out for Mount Lianglang.

By candlelight, her husband polished his armor and said, "Don't worry, madam. I will win this battle."

Shen Qingyuan pressed down on his hand and smiled faintly.

"General, you cannot go to this battle."

She remembered every enemy's name, the date of every plot, and every blade driven into the Shen family.

This time, she would not kneel.

A matriarch's ledger was never for keeping track of her dowry. It was for collecting lives.