In her previous life, Shen Qingyuan was the most pampered legitimate daughter of a marquis's household in the capital. She fell in love with the Seventh Prince, Xiao Jingyuan, and to help him claim the throne, she gave away the family fortune and handed over her father and brothers' military power. Every member of the Shen family paved the way for his grand ambitions.
But once he had seized power and ascended the throne, the Shen family received no honors or rewards. Instead, they were branded traitors with a charge of colluding with the enemy. Her father and brothers were beheaded in the marketplace, and the entire family, young and old, was slaughtered on the execution ground. She herself was stripped of her position as empress and imprisoned in the Cold Palace.
Her former beloved held her half-sister in his arms and looked down at her as he said, "The Shen family was always just a stepping stone for me to reach the top."
She swallowed a cup of poison, her body consumed by raging flames, and Shen Qingyuan died with hatred in her heart. When she opened her eyes again, she had returned to the year of her coming-of-age ceremony, before any of those tragedies had happened. In this life, she would never again be the foolish legitimate daughter who lost herself in love.
The throne and power Xiao Jingyuan wanted? She would destroy them with her own hands. He had sacrificed the entire Shen family, so she would give everything she had to support his sworn enemy, Xiao Jue, the Prince of Jing, whom the world regarded as a harbinger of calamity.
You owe me a blood debt from my past life. In this life, I will make you repay it a thousand, ten thousand times over!
