A beautiful, self-reliant noblewoman who seems delicate VS a self-loathing, sinister, and ruthless chief minister
Ning He married Situ Xiao, a son from a concubine's branch of the Situ family, in a lavish wedding. But her husband tore her wedding dress to shreds and cast her aside like trash.
"So this is all a noble daughter of a marquis's family amounts to? Disgusting!"
Everyone said she was lucky:
Her grandfather traded away his military power so she could marry the top scholar, and within six months her husband rose to great heights and became chief minister. What a fortunate life!
Only Ning He knew the truth:
Her husband's study concealed a portrait. When her life hung by a thread, he was searching for snow lotuses on the Heavenly Mountains for the woman he loved. When her only grandfather's fate was unknown, he casually crushed the blood-soaked letter she'd presented on her knees.
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When Situ Xiao discovered that his wife had suddenly changed...
She pawned their keepsake jade pendant without a second thought to open a rouge and perfume shop. She personally burned the countless pages she'd copied for him. She even smiled as she set a Heavenly Mountain snow lotus before him.
"Take the medicine for the woman you love, and give me my freedom."
Then the bloody truth tore everything apart:
The ironclad proof that her grandfather had died in battle was that the woman he loved and her father had betrayed their country. Behind the Situ family's mask of impeccable nobility lay the wronged spirits of her father and brothers, who had died unjustly!
Ning He set fire to the chief minister's residence and left her husband, the most powerful man in court, a letter of divorce.
"May you and the woman you love stay together in life and death."
She had no idea that Situ Xiao would tear the divorce papers to shreds in a frenzy and turn the merchant caravan preparing to head south upside down. His trembling guard presented a bloodstained jade hairpin.
"Madam... fell from a cliff on Cangwu Mountain."
Three years later, at a spring banquet in Yunnan, Ning He, the newly crowned wealthiest woman in the land, lounged against a Xiangfei couch and looked down at the man from her past, tormented by a poison made from Gu worms.
"Chief Minister, do you understand how I felt back then?"
Situ Xiao, eyes bloodshot, pressed her against a jade screen. His Adam's apple bobbed as overwhelming remorse filled his voice.
"A-He, you can cut out my heart or bleed me dry, whatever you like... But first, will you accept our child's full-month celebration gift?"
Later, the capital was abuzz with a saying:
The chief minister, who could destroy an enemy fleet with a laugh, now feared three things most of all:
Half a divorce letter in his wife's sewing box, the Guide to Divorcing Your Husband in his son's hands, and... the pair of mandarin-duck pillows in their bedroom, one of which was always missing.
Reader's Guide:
1. The woman he supposedly loves is his elder brother's fiancee, but it's all a misunderstanding. The male lead never loved her. Both leads are virgins.
2. The crazy chief minister pursues his wife after driving her away.
3. The male lead's cruel treatment of the heroine's family is based on a misunderstanding, which will be cleared up later.
Theme: Love yourself and the people you love.
This male protagonist is no longer as simple as a scumbag when he humiliates the female protagonist so much. What about HE?
Cancel the collection. Updates are too slow and always interrupted.
After waiting for two days, I got three thousand words of memories...
The writing is very interesting, it's the type I like. I'll save it first and then kill it when it gets fatter.