Shen Jiyan spent half her previous life in sweetness and half in bitterness.
In the end, she died from an arrow shot from afar by the person beside her pillow.
Fortunately, Xiao Xun was an excellent shot, so her death was not too painful.
Reborn, she avoided the fate of marrying Xiao Xun.
The emperor arranged her marriage, and she wed Xiao Xun's younger brother, Xiao Heng.
With bloodshot eyes, Xiao Heng knelt before her and begged, "Elder sister, I'll help you kill him. Just look at me."
Shen Jiyan looked at Xiao Heng and thought, perhaps that wouldn't be so bad.
Xiao Xun loved the throne above all else. Anyone who stood in the way of his ascension had to die.
His wife was no exception.
A wife was no different from a concubine. Both were tools for managing his household and bearing his children.
It was only natural for a man to have three wives and four concubines.
Without his first wife, he could take another, and it would be just the same.
Only when he lay alone in the middle of the night, staring at the empty half of the bed, and a sudden pain gripped his heart, did he finally realize that she was different.
Theme: Be steadfast and devoted in love, and embrace life with passion.
