The Powerful Official's Concubine

[A cold, ruthless, control-obsessed mad dog of a man x a beautiful, clever woman who transmigrates]

[The powerful one bows his head]

The marriage of Shen Sui and Yun Wan was a celebrated match in Jingluo.

Childhood sweethearts, well-matched in status: Shen Sui was the most renowned young nobleman in Jingluo, the legitimate son of a distinguished family. Handsome as a refined scholar, he passed the highest examinations and swiftly rose through the ranks, wielding great power at a remarkably young age.

Yun Wan was delicate and frail, dignified and virtuous, and long famed for her talent.

The only imperfection was that, because of Yun Wan's frail health, they had no children in the years after their marriage.

Just then, Shen Sui was sent away to take up an official post. He traveled there simply, with only two young servants in tow.

Someone offered Yun Wan a suggestion: why not take this opportunity to find her husband a respectable local woman and keep her as a concubine? If she bore a son, they could bring him straight back to be raised at the wife's knee. This way, it would not affect their relationship, and there would be no need for a crowd of people in the household.

Yun Wan was tempted.

*

Zhou Wu opened her eyes and found herself back in ancient times, as the newly installed concubine of the Shen family.

Locked in a dark room with her head pounding, she had a maid beside her who was weeping uncontrollably.

The original owner was the daughter of a schoolteacher. Her father was gravely ill, and with no other options, she had signed a contract with Yun Wan and entered the household. Her purpose was to share a bed with Shen Sui and bear an heir for the Shen family.

But the master had refused to touch her even once and ordered her sent away. With no other choice, she drugged him. After he saw through her scheme, she had angrily dashed her head against the wall, and Zhou Wu had awakened in her place.

Zhou Wu looked up and saw a tall, handsome man standing before her, impatience plain in his eyes.

Holding a letter that had just arrived from Yun Wan, he said coldly,