【Reborn + transmigrate into a book + a battlefield of male competition + everyone has genuine feelings + not a one-to-one romance】
In her previous life, Shen Tangji obeyed her family’s arrangements and married into the imperial clan as the second wife of an older widower. Her dowry was taken from her, she had no way to seek medical care, and she died of illness at twenty-five, wasting away in a secluded household.
When she opened her eyes again, she had returned to the time before her engagement was arranged.
In this life, all she wanted was to reclaim the shops her adoptive mother had left her, borrow a fake lover to fend off marriage, and then return to Jiangnan with her money. Who could have known that at the spring banquet, just as she publicly declared, “I already have someone I love,” and the arrogant heir she had arranged to pretend with was about to rise, the young general who had kept his marriage vow to her for four years spoke first:
“It’s me.”
Worse still, the Crown Prince kept the sachet she had personally given him, the heir of a prominent clan hid the private invitation she had written in his sleeve, and even the normally restrained Grand Secretary knew that she was planning to leave the capital quietly.
Everyone believed they would be her final destination.
It was not until five men sat down together and compared, line by line, the promises she had made to them that they discovered the date she had promised to return was different for each of them.
And the beloved adopted daughter of the Shen family had changed too. She had read a book and was certain that Shen Tangji should have married early and died of illness. Why, then, had everyone’s fate now veered away from the ending?
