In her previous life, Shen Zhaozhao loved Pei Jue to the point of madness.
She spent her entire dowry, managed the marquis’s household for him, took a blade for him, and endured one humiliation after another. In the end, her own younger sister joined forces with his first love to frame her. Pei Jue believed the so-called witnesses and evidence, then locked her away in a forbidden courtyard, where she coughed up blood and died day after day amid the calming incense.
Reborn at eighteen, Shen Zhaozhao opens her eyes to find Pei Jue peeling an orange for another woman.
She picks up a cup of hot tea, splashes it in his face, and smiles sweetly.
“Pei Jue, let’s divorce.”
From that moment on, the frail young marquis’s wife, who had only ever had eyes for her husband, was gone.
Shen Zhaozhao starts taking stock of her dowry, anticipating schemes, and dismantling plots in public. When her half-sister is about to cry, Shen Zhaozhao recites her lines first. When his first love tries to frame her, Shen Zhaozhao turns around and lays the evidence before everyone. When the marquis’s household tries to use its rules to control her, she smiles and flips the whole table.
She holds a grudge, but never overnight.
Her words are sweet, but her hand is harder than anyone’s.
Everyone assumes Shen Zhaozhao won’t survive once she leaves the marquis’s household. Instead, she moves out with 126 sedan chairs’ worth of dowry and the Duke of Zhenguo’s household at her back, and her life gets better by the day.
Meanwhile, Pei Jue, who once looked down on her, gradually begins to panic.
She no longer waits for him to come home, and he lies awake all night.
She no longer chases after him to explain herself, and he starts showing up at her door every day.
The more she wants a divorce, the more he refuses to let go. The more cheerfully she messes with him, the more hopelessly addicted he becomes.
Until the divorce papers are finally approved, and the man who had always held himself above everyone else
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