The day Li Chan got married was an extremely unlucky one.
On their wedding night, her childhood sweetheart and former fiancé stumbled into the bridal chamber dead drunk and stubbornly refused to call her sister-in-law.
Her new husband glared at her coldly and had not even lifted her veil to look at her when chaos broke out at the border. He was urgently summoned to join the army and head north, and did not return to the capital for three years.
Some people in the capital sighed over her misfortune, while others took pleasure in it.
The once-prosperous Li family fell from grace overnight. The former darling of heaven, who had been destined to become the Marquis's heir's wife, was forced into a hasty marriage with Shen Ye, the unlucky man of the Marquis's first branch, left to fend for himself. In return, she was despised and treated with cold indifference.
Who could have guessed that three years later, Shen Ye, once dismissed as an ill-starred man, would return victorious from war, covered in glory and transformed into a rising star with great influence?
The capital's noble families all tried to cultivate ties with him, hoping to arrange a marriage alliance. The emperor also wanted to make use of him and planned to marry a princess to him as a way of winning him over.
Li Chan, who had nothing but the title of his legal wife, read the situation and wisely proposed a divorce.
But Shen Ye's face darkened at once. "The imperial decree granting you a title will arrive any moment. Are you planning to defy the emperor's orders?"
Note: The female lead is a cunning, sweet-faced schemer with top-tier acting skills.
Theme: A daughter should be self-reliant.
