The Heir Apparent Insists on Marrying Me

Song Junli had an eye for talent. She stood by Jiang Yunxuan as he rose from a mere licentiate to become the powerful Grand Secretary, dreaming of the happy life they would share. Virtuous women have always had their grievances, and beloved wives have always known jealousy. When she saw Jiang Yunxuan demote her to concubine for the sake of a woman who had once abandoned him, destroying her reputation in the process, jealousy consumed every last bit of her reason. Her good name ruined, she was confined to a Buddhist temple with a letter of divorce. She became the laughingstock of all. How had her life come to this? Then she discovered the secret of that woman: she was the heroine admired by everyone in the book, while the other woman had transmigrated into a book and held the plot in her hands. He said, “The story is over. You have no reason to go on living.” The Buddhist temple caught fire, and she perished in the flames. Staring into the inferno, she laughed wildly. At last, she had escaped the plot’s control. She no longer had to ruin her family and become estranged from everyone for the sake of a scumbag. Armed with peerless poison-making skills, she fought her way back to the capital. The heir of the Marquis of Yong’an fell in love at first sight with an ugly commoner and insisted on marrying her. Meanwhile, one prestigious family after another in the capital, once at the height of their glory, suffered disaster. Some died, others fell apart, all of it painfully sad to witness. Only when someone realized that the heir’s wife looked exactly like the Grand Secretary’s first wife, who had perished in the flames, did everyone finally understand: evil gets what it deserves. Song Junli looked at the game board she had turned around against all odds and smiled. “The story is over. My revenge is only just beginning.”