Shen Qiyue has an ominous reputation: she is said to bring death to her husbands.
Both of her former fiancés died before their weddings. People say she is a harbinger of misfortune who killed two men.
Then the emperor came to ask for her hand.
He knew her reputation. “That’s precisely why,” he said.
On her first day in the palace, she dug years’ worth of poisonous powder out from between the floor tiles in Fengyi Palace. Carrying the tile to the emperor, she asked, “How did the last person who lived here die?”
The emperor looked at her for a long time, then turned the question back on her. “How do you plan to investigate?”
Her supposed curse is actually an ability: she can smell poison.
Her two former fiancés were not killed by her curse. They were poisoned by someone.
And the person who poisoned them has not stopped.
The empress said to bring death to her husbands has married the most dangerous man of all.
But this time, she intends to settle the score.
