Reborn: I Refuse to Be a Prince Consort

His name is Qi Heng, the illegitimate son of the Censor-in-Chief. As a boy, he was trampled underfoot by his legitimate older brother, until Princess Jiang Qianyu reached out to him. “From now on, I'll protect you.” He paid for those words with his entire life. He advised her, eliminated her political enemies, and took blades and arrows meant for her. She rose from an overlooked princess to a woman with power over the entire court, while he climbed from a despised illegitimate son to become her husband. He thought his hardships were finally over. Then Shen Qingyuan, the friend he'd known since childhood, appeared. The princess began to say that the scar on his face was “terrifying.” She believed Shen Qingyuan's accusations that Qi Heng had poisoned people and framed others, stripped him of his position as her husband, and threw him into the dungeon. In the end, with Shen Qingyuan in her arms, she uttered two words herself: “Death by a thousand cuts.” One cut, two cuts, three cuts... His flesh was carved away until he was unrecognizable, and he breathed his last amid boundless hatred. When he opened his eyes again, he had returned to the age of eleven. That was the year the princess had yet to bestow her cheap kindness upon him. That was the year Shen Qingyuan was still a hypocrite who smiled and called him “Ah Heng.” This time, he wanted no one's pity. In this life, he would personally send that treacherous pair to their graves.