[Strong Female Lead] [One Female Lead, Multiple Male Leads] [Everyone's Favorite] [No Angsty Drama]
Shen Wantang had a dream.
In it, she lived her whole life. The entire Zhongyong Marquis household fell, and she died alone in an unknown corner. Only as she lay dying did she see the truth: the man she had loved and trusted had been plotting against her from beginning to end. His tenderness, his gifts, and his subtle favoritism were nothing but poison wrapped in sugar.
When she awoke, she was sixteen, and the crabapple blossoms outside her window had not yet fallen.
The events from her dream had not happened yet. She committed every detail to memory, then turned around and did what she should have done long ago.
She would protect the Shen family, dismantle the pieces around that man's side one by one, and make the person who had climbed over her corpse pay back everything he owed her.
In the court, she navigated a world of open attacks and hidden schemes. But in the shadows, some waited for her to look back, some waited for her to speak, and some had stood behind her from the very beginning.
In this life, she no longer wanted to be the one left standing in the shadows, watching someone else's back disappear.
