At the Grand Princess's wedding, celebrated throughout the kingdom, Meng Nanyan should have appeared in her phoenix coronet and wedding robes. Instead, she arrived dressed in mourning and plunged a dagger into her groom's heart in front of the gathered people.
If asked what lesson in life Meng Nanyan learned after being reborn, she learned only this: people with soft hearts meet bad ends.
She shows no mercy in punishing everyone she considers guilty, and her methods of hunting down her prey are uniquely her own.
First, she wins over the aloof, self-possessed top scholar;
then she gets the free-spirited young marquis;
and finally, she tames the cold, selfless general.
Every one of them begs her not to leave.
Even her former groom, who barely survived after she stabbed him, casts aside his dignity and kneels every day outside the princess's residence, begging her to take him back.
Looking at the men who sent her to her death in her previous life for the sake of other women, Meng Nanyan tosses them a sword.
Her voice is sweet as poison:
