(Historical romance, marriage before love + clear-headed legitimate daughter + ruthless power minister + refusing emotional blackmail from family + mutual healing)
By imperial decree, Shen Shaoyan, the legitimate daughter of the Vice Minister of Personnel, was ordered to marry Xiao Weizhi, the regent notorious for his murderous reputation.
All three of his previous fiancées had met mysterious deaths. This marriage was tantamount to sending her to her death.
Her father knelt on the ground, weeping and blubbering, never ceasing to invoke their family ties. Her grandmother earnestly urged her to trade her life for the clan’s glory. Her stepmother and younger half-siblings were already calculating how to use her marriage to curry favor with the powerful and reap every possible benefit.
Not one member of her family asked whether she was afraid to die.
Shen Shaoyan appeared to accept the decree obediently, but in her heart she had already severed all family ties.
When she entered the regent’s residence as his bride, everyone wagered she wouldn’t survive her wedding night.
But the slaughter everyone expected never came.
The regent, feared by thousands and steeped in bloodshed, repeatedly made exceptions for this new princess consort, who neither fawned over him nor feared him nor coveted his power.
The Shen family’s greed knew no bounds. They pressed her at every turn, colluding with political enemies in an attempt to use her to seize power. When disaster struck, they tried to use the chains of blood ties to force her to sacrifice her life to save them.
Shen Shaoyan coldly refused. “You didn’t speak of family when you forced me into hell. Why bring up our ties now that you’re in trouble?”
She broke free of the shackles imposed by her clan and carved out a place for herself amid political scheming and flashing blades.
Two people covered in scars comforted each other and became each other’s home.
Nice! Interesting