Matriarchy: The Cold and Distant Husband Is Forcibly Taken into the Crown Princess's Eastern Palace

[Women rule + one female lead + both leads are each other's first and only]

In his previous life, Shen Nianzhu was framed for adultery by his live-in wife, who wanted to seize his family fortune, and her wicked mistress. He was thrown into a pond and drowned.

Reborn, he sees his wife once again arrive with her mistress, and his eyes fill with a bone-deep hatred.

To protect the Shen family's fortune and avoid meeting the same gruesome end, he rescues an unconscious, beautiful young woman at the foot of the mountain. Her origins are unknown. Gritting his teeth, Shen Nianzhu signs a contract with her: once they have a child, they will part ways and have nothing more to do with each other.

He treats her as a pawn and a tool for his revenge, letting her humiliate him as she pleases behind closed doors.

But as the young woman displays increasingly terrifying abilities, Shen Nianzhu realizes he may have provoked someone extraordinarily dangerous!

Knowing the royal family is heartless and wanting no part in the whirlpool of court politics, he abandons the family fortune he had hoped to preserve and flees without hesitation.

Years later, in a remote village.

Shen Nianzhu is holding the hand of his toddler, who has just learned to run, when he opens the courtyard gate. A mass of cavalry has already kicked up clouds of dust across the town.

Amid the clatter of armor, Feng Rao kicks the courtyard gate open. Her long, elegant hand grabs him by the nape and hurls him into a luxurious imperial carriage.

"Master Shen, where do you think you're running now?"