The Marquis’s Wife Is Feared Throughout the Capital

Everyone says the Yongning Marquis's household has married a demon incarnate.

The Marchioness, Shen Jingci, is willful and ruthless. The noble young ladies of the capital turn pale at the sound of her name, while the sons of princes and dukes avoid her at all costs.

Everyone is certain her days of arrogance and tyranny won't last long.

Little do they know that in her previous life, her meekness and concessions brought her only the ruin of her family and a death in a well.

Reborn into a new life, she decides to embrace her infamous reputation, wearing her fierceness as armor and her ruthlessness as a blade.

Her white-lotus half-sister wants to take her place? She'll crush every last delusion.

Her mean-spirited mother-in-law wants to keep her in line? She'll take charge of the marquis's household and leave the woman gasping for breath.

The cold marquis once loved someone else and treated her with nothing but indifference? Then she'll draw a clear line between them, and they can each live their own lives.

She stirs up the muddy waters of the marquis's household, clears obstacles across the capital, helps her family rise, and builds up her connections and influence.

When Shen Jingci stands atop the capital, commanding immense power, everyone who once scorned and slandered her bows their heads.

The Marquis of Yongning regrets everything and waits in her courtyard day after day, begging her to take him back.

Shen Jingci leans against the corridor, her smile icy.

“My fearsome reputation is my safeguard, and I decide my own future. I carved out this glittering life in the capital myself, and I'll never bow my head to anyone again.”