After Mistaking Him for My Husband, My Powerful Younger Uncle-in-Law Loses Control

[Transmigrate into a book + forbidden uncle and sister-in-law romance + deranged powerful official + family and palace intrigue + sugary romantic tension + falling for her on his own]

On the first night of her widowhood, Xu Zhiwei mistook Xie Zhi, the regent and the most powerful man in the court, for her newly deceased husband.

She was a cannon-fodder young madam who had transmigrated into a book. In the original story, she didn't survive past the early chapters: first, she was framed for losing her chastity, then accused of bringing disgrace upon the family, and finally drowned in a pond. To stay alive, she had no choice but to act fragile, cling to powerful allies, seize her dowry, fight her vicious mother-in-law, and put her sister-in-law in her place, struggling to survive in the Marquis's household, where people devoured one another.

But she never imagined the man she'd latched onto would be the most dangerous man in the entire capital.

Xie Zhi, the second young master of the Zhongyong Marquis's household, held the imperial prison in his hands and wielded power across the court. Everyone said he was sinister, ruthless, and utterly uncaring, a living King of Hell. Yet this King of Hell coldly told her to behave herself in public, while secretly standing up for her and sending everyone who had bullied her to prison.

The more she tried to run, the less he would let her go. She called herself afraid, but behind his back she was always using him as a shield. He knew she was full of sweet lies, yet time and again he lost control for her, took her side, and flew into a jealous rage.

From the inner courtyards of the Marquis's residence to the cutthroat rivalries of palace banquets, from investigating cases on the frontier to power struggles at court, Xu Zhiwei had only wanted to stay alive and save money. In the end, she somehow became the person closest to the powerful official's heart.

The whole capital waited to see how this widowed sister-in-law and cannon fodder would die.

Later, all they saw was this: she fought her way out of a death trap, trampled every scheme beneath her feet, and became Xie Zhi's one and only rightful wife.